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?
BILLY JOELIn every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
More Billy Joel Quotes
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My songs are like my kids.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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