Quote

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 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
Never
Weakness
Weaknesses
Result
Destined
Respect
Limitations
Style
Failures
Learned
Limitation
Results
Directly
Success
Dues
Things
Related
Strengths

More quotes by Billy Joel

Image
The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
Billy Joel
Image
I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
Billy Joel
Image
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
Billy Joel
Image
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
Billy Joel
Image
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.'
Billy Joel
Image
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
Billy Joel
Image
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
Billy Joel
Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
Billy Joel
Image
There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
Billy Joel
Image
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
Billy Joel
Image
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
Image
Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody
Billy Joel
Image
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel
Image
Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
Image
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
Billy Joel
Image
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Billy Joel
Image
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
Billy Joel
Image
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
Billy Joel