I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned. Billy Joel More Quotes by Billy Joel More Quotes From Billy Joel You can’t go the distance with too much resistance Billy Joel resistance distance too-much There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston. Billy Joel houston going-away kids I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man. Billy Joel not-sure spiritual men Advice is cheap; you can take it from me. Billy Joel advice If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind. Billy Joel truthfulness blind might I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship. Billy Joel consistency piano long I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them. Billy Joel legs musician tails Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you. Billy Joel vienna waiting dream They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria. Billy Joel sadness eye believe And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old. Billy Joel truth-is what-you-want want Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone. Billy Joel titles fighting courage There's a place in the world for the angry young man Billy Joel wall struggle home 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 tonight want needs My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible. Billy Joel my-daughter missions daughter As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay! Billy Joel atheist evil fear When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric. I've tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn't trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are. Billy Joel community writing people I run into people from the Lehigh Valley and Allentown all over the world, and they're obviously doing pretty well. They say, "Oh, it's pretty nice there now and there's a lot of new businesses that have come into the area." Nobody's telling me, "Yeah, I left." Everybody says, "You know, I'm there. It's great. It's really nice there, and you made our town famous." Billy Joel nice running people Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work. Billy Joel empathy people thinking One of the last times that we played in the area before I wrote "Allentown," I remember a guy coming up to us and saying, "You're never coming back here." I said, "Why do you say that?" He said, "Well, you're probably gonna become a big star. Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here." And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, "Well, I'm coming back, no matter what." Billy Joel bitter guy kids Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink. Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway. Billy Joel writing song long
