Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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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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