Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOELMusicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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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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