They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
BILLY JOELLike a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Only the good die young.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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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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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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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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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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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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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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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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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 have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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