Billy Joel Quotes

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.
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You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.
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So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI've loved these days
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You can get what you want or you can just get old.
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And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together
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If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
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Home can be the Pennsylvania TurnpikeIndiana's early morning dewHigh up in the hills of CaliforniaHome is just another word for you
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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...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...
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They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
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And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new
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For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our inhumanityOur reason coexists with our insanityBut we choose between reality and madnessIt's either sadness or euphoria
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She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain
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And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut its better than drinkin' alone
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...And you're the only one who knows.
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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 am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going
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We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it
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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
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