Billy Joel Quotes
-
I'd start a revolution but I don't have timeI don't know why I'm still a nice guy.
-
If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
-
Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
-
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
-
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.
-
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
-
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.
-
Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
-
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
-
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.
-
I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
-
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
-
You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
-
You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
-
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
-
I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don't these people ever watch ""Behind the Music""? It's a cliche. If I had known that the story was going to be reported in the way that it was, I would have considered not going at all.
-
Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
-
If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way.
-
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.
-
Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.
-
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
-
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
-
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
-
I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.