Quotes from Billy Joel

You're a big boy now; you'll never let her go, but that's just the kind of thing she ought to know. Tell her about it. Tell her everything you feel. Giver her every reason to accept that you're for real.

You can linger too long in your dreams...

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

For all our mutual experience Our separate conclusions are the same Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity Our reason coexists with our insanity But we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria

And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our mothers we'd write And we would all go down together

And in the evening After the fire and the light One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light Time is relentless And as the past disappears We're on the verge of all things new

There ain't no island left for islanders like me.

And the waitress is practicing politics As the businessmen slowly get stoned Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But its better than drinkin' alone

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

music it says all the things that words alone can never say

It didn't matter that I felt like a fool 'cause I forgot when she walked through the door.

They say there's a heaven for those who will wait Some say it's better but I say it ain't I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints The sinners are much more fun

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

For we are always what our situations hand us: it's either sadness or euphoria.

I don't know why I go walking at night, but now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore. I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life until I find what it is that I've been looking for.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Out of respect for 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

The sinners are much more fun.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.

Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.