Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELWe 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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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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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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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