Quotes by Billy Joel

“Youve got your passion. Youve got your pride.But dont you know that only fools are satisfied?Dream on, but dont imagine theyll all come true.”

“Dont wait for answers... Just take your chances!Dont ask me why.”

“Went off to school, and learned to serve the state.Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight.The only way to live was drown the hate.The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.”

“If it seems like Ive been lost in lets remember, If it seems Im 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.”

“While nobles are crying in their nights chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape.”

“She would give them order. She would create constellations”

“She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.”

“Thats here. Thats home. Thats us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

“Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?”

“...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...”

So I would choose to be with you,Thats if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

We didnt start the fireIt was always burningSince the worlds been turningWe didnt start the fireNo we didnt light itBut we tried to fight it

When the going gets tough, the tough get going

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until a new one comes along

...And youre the only one who knows.

And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, theyre sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut its better than drinkin alone

She always says Im the best friend that shes ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From Laura on The Nylon Curtain

For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our inhumanityOur reason coexists with our insanityBut we choose between reality and madnessIts either sadness or euphoria

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWere on the verge of all things new