You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
BILLY JOELIn a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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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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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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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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