Billy Joel Quotes
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.
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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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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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I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
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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 wouldn't 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.