There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
BILLY JOELRock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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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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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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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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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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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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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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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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My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOEL