You can linger too long in your dreams. Billy Joel More Quotes by Billy Joel More Quotes From Billy Joel I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05. Billy Joel writing song beautiful Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind. Billy Joel holiday new-york beach It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News. Billy Joel rhythm-and-blues new-york giving Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing. Billy Joel stage easy needs I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers. Billy Joel stars mirrors thinking You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame. Billy Joel shame girl walks I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right. Billy Joel limos cheer people I'm single but interviewing. Billy Joel I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be. Billy Joel rolling stones people Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them! Billy Joel here-i-am song years Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness Billy Joel lonliness drink drinking There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me. Billy Joel sea islands men 'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent. Billy Joel hard-work war children There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life. Billy Joel story-of-my-life stories 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 relentless moments past They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on. Billy Joel keys song memories Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind. Billy Joel waiting mind giving She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me. Billy Joel eye lying children My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane! Billy Joel being-crazy sane crazy 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 wall home long
