Billy Joel Quotes
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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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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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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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.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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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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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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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 should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.
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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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When you look into my eyes And you see the crazy gypsy in my soulIt always comes as a surprise When I feel my withered roots begin to grow Well I never had a place that I could call my very own That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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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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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.