Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELYou can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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My songs are like my kids.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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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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