Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
Billy Joel
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
Wrong
View
Surviving
Found
Fight
Pointless
Matter
Consciousness
Righteous
Right
Views
Points
Believe
Went
Passed
Life
Causes
Rage
Age
Believed
Fighting
Noble
More quotes by Billy Joel
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
Billy Joel
Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
Billy Joel
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
Billy Joel
I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
Billy Joel
Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
Billy Joel
It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
Billy Joel
I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in '93.
Billy Joel
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Billy Joel
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
Billy Joel
You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
Billy Joel
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.
Billy Joel
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.
Billy Joel
Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
Billy Joel
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
Billy Joel
Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong
Billy Joel
I actually wrote the song first as well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday. That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
Billy Joel
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
Billy Joel
And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
Billy Joel
If 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 Joel