Billy Joel Quotes - Page 3

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

You only beat me if you get me to hate.

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in 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 Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. [...] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

I'm in a New York state of mind