Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELIn hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Only the good die young.
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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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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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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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