Billy Joel Quotes
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.
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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do.
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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 always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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They say that these are not the best of times But they're the only times I've ever known And I believe there is a time for meditation In cathedrals of our own.
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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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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.
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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.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.
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I don't want clever conversationI never want to work that hard.
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It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewhat foolish guy . . . So I tell them to try to hold on to the way they feel right now. Because that's going to effect them for the rest of their lives.
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Slow down, you crazy child.You're so ambitious for a juvenile.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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Some people find it's easier to hate.
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I've crashed my car three times.
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She's got a way about her...I don't know what it is... but I know that I can't live without her...