You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOELYou only beat me if you get me to hate.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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 consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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