They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
BILLY JOELWhen I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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