Billy Joel Quotes

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Only the good die young.

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 could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

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.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.

She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one

If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

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.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.