They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOELThere was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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 said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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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 am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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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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