You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
BILLY JOELYou’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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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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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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