Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELYou can speak your mind But not on my time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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?
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from 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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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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