Billy Joel Quotes
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She will promise you more Than the Garden of Eden Then she'll carelessly cut you And laugh while you're bleeding.
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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!
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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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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I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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."
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall.
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If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.