Billy Joel Quotes
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I watched the mighty skyline fall.
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Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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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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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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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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It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.
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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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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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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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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.