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 JOELIn hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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