I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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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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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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 can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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