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?
BILLY JOELI’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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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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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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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’m in a New York state of mind
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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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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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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