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Billy Joel Inspirational Quotes (148)

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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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All she wanted was sax.
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We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong
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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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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking Uptown Girl! I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called Ragdoll, which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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