Billy Joel Quotes

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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage.
I've found that just surviving is a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view.
And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

Billy Joel

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

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I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

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I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

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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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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

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We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it.

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They say that these are not the best of times,
but they're the only times I've ever known.
And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes
and I can only stand apart and sympathize.
For we are only what our situations hand us,
it's either sadness or euphoria.

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Well we're waiting here in Allentown,
For the Pennsylvania we never found,
For the promises our teachers gave,
If we worked hard,
If we behaved.
So the graduations hang on the wall,
But they never really helped us at all,
No they never taught us what was real,
Iron and coke,
And chromium steel,
And we're waiting here in Allentown.

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For all our mutual experience
Our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
But we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria.

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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

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Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Indiana early morning dew
High up in the hills of California
Home is just another word for you.

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She'll promise you more than the Garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding
But she'll bring out the best and the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself 'cause she's always a woman to me.

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You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation
You've got a brand new soul and a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information
You didn't count on me, you were counting on your rosary.

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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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You may be right,
I may be crazy,
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for!

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They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun.

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Some folks like to get away
Take a holiday from the neighborhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood
But I'm takin' a Greyhound on the Hudson River line
I'm in a New York state of mind.

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We are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason co-exists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

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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?
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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