Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Imagine
Passion
True
Dream
Fools
Come
Satisfied
Ambition
Pride
Fool

More quotes by Billy Joel

Image
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
Billy Joel
Image
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
Billy Joel
Image
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
Billy Joel
Image
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
Image
There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
Billy Joel
Image
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
Image
I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
Billy Joel
Image
My songs are like my kids.
Billy Joel
Image
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
Billy Joel
Image
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.
Billy Joel
Image
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
Image
Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise...
Billy Joel
Image
Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
Billy Joel
Image
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
Billy Joel
Image
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
Billy Joel
Image
I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20 I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs.
Billy Joel
Image
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
Billy Joel
Image
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
Billy Joel
Image
You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
Billy Joel
Image
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, Listen to me. Now it says, Look at me.
Billy Joel