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 JOELWe drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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My songs are like my kids.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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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 don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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