Billy Joel Quotes
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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.
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
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Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma And the law just could not seem to track him down And it served his legend well For the folks, they'd love to tell 'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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Some people sleep all alone every night Instead of taking a lover to bed Some people find that it's easier to hate Than to wait anymore.
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Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.billy
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.