Billy Joel Quotes - Page 9

Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

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 You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

I run into people from the Lehigh Valley and Allentown all over the world, and they're obviously doing pretty well. They say, "Oh, it's pretty nice there now and there's a lot of new businesses that have come into the area." Nobody's telling me, "Yeah, I left." Everybody says, "You know, I'm there. It's great. It's really nice there, and you made our town famous."

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

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. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.

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.

I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.