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 JOELAs human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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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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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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