Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Only the good die young.
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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It feels great to have a #1 album.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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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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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. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.
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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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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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In 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.
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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...And you're the only one who knows.
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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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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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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