Billy Joel Quotes
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Shades of grey wherever I go The more I find out the less that I know Black and white is how it should be But shades of grey are the colors I see.
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I'd start a revolution but I don't have timeI don't know why I'm still a nice guy.
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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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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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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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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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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'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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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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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.
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I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
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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 better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.
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I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.