They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOELYou just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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My songs are like my kids.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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It’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?
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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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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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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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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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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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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