Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELWe 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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