I’m in a New York state of mind
BILLY JOELHistorically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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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 was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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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.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Only the good die young.
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