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.
BILLY JOELOut 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.
BILLY JOELYou’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
BILLY JOELI took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOELI really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOELKnow what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
BILLY JOELThey say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
BILLY JOELWhy don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
BILLY JOELSlow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELAs human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
BILLY JOELSo 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.
BILLY JOELSergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
BILLY JOELIf it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
BILLY JOELThere’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
BILLY JOELWell I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
BILLY JOELI have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
BILLY JOEL