Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELCritics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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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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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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