You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOELLike a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We 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.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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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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