I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
BILLY JOELIt’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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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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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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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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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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