Billy Joel Quotes
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I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin.
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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.
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Who was wrong? Who was right?It didn't matter in the thick of the fight...
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People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.
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It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
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I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don't these people ever watch ""Behind the Music""? It's a cliche. If I had known that the story was going to be reported in the way that it was, I would have considered not going at all.
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I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody.
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You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
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I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewhat foolish guy . . . So I tell them to try to hold on to the way they feel right now. Because that's going to effect them for the rest of their lives.
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She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.
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I don't know if people are going to remember some of these songs we're going to do tonight. Hell, I don't know if we're going to remember some of these.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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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Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
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If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.