Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELKnow what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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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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