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.
BILLY JOELMy friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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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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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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My songs are like my kids.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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