Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
BILLY JOELI don’t know why I go to extremes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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