Billy Joel: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot.
Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got.
Maybe I'm headed over the hill
Maybe I've set myself up for the kill.
Tell me how much do you think you can take
Until the heart in you is starting to break?
Sometimes it feels like it will.”

Billy Joel

I Go to Extremes.
Song lyrics, Storm Front (1989)

Feeling , Thinking , Heart

“From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia
Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand
And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time
East and west of the Rio Grande.
Well, he started with a bank in Colorado
In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid.
And his age and his size took the teller by surprise,
And the word spread of Billy the Kid.”

Billy Joel

The Ballad of Billy the Kid.
Song lyrics, Piano Man (1973)

Life , Age , Boy , Time

“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

New York State of Mind.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)

Holiday

“It seems such a waste of time
If that's what it's all about
If that's movin' up then I'm movin' out.”

Billy Joel

Movin' Out (Anthony's Song).
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)

Time

“I never said you had to offer me a second chance.
I never said I was a victim of circumstance.
I still belong, don't get me wrong.
And you can speak your mind
But not on my time.”

Billy Joel

My Life.
Song lyrics, 52nd Street (1978)

Chance , Time

“I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard.
I just want someone
that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.”

Billy Joel

Just the Way You Are.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)

Way

“Some things were perfectly clear, seen with the vision of youth.
No doubts and nothing to fear, I claimed the corner on truth.
These days it's harder to say I know what I'm fighting for.
My faith is falling away.
I'm not that sure anymore.
Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know.
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see.”

Billy Joel

Shades of Grey.
Song lyrics, River of Dreams (1993)

Truth , Youth , Fear , Faith

“Well, we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell.
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger?
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?”

Billy Joel

The Stranger.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)

Love , Secret , Lovers

“Now we are 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

Summer, Highland Falls.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)

Sadness , Reality , Madness

“So many faces in and out of my life
Some will last
Some will be just now and then.
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
Say goodbye to Hollywood
Say goodbye my baby
Say goodbye to Hollywood
Say goodbye my baby.”

Billy Joel

Say Goodbye to Hollywood.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)

Life , Time , Baby

“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

Leningrad.
Song lyrics, Storm Front (1989)

Daughters

“I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright.
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home.
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life.
Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.”

Billy Joel

My Life.
Song lyrics, 52nd Street (1978)

Life , Home , Time

“These days there's a million ways
To be pulled and torn, to be misdirected.
These times there are sins and crimes
On the morning shows for the disconnected.
I look and I write my book
And I walk away with the wrong impressions.
I don't care 'cause I've done my share. And I need some time for my own obsessions
It doesn't matter, I've let that life go by.
It's been forgotten 'cause all I wanted was you.”

Billy Joel

Blonde Over Blue.
Song lyrics, River of Dreams (1993)

Life , Books , Way , Time

“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
Sinners are much more fun…
And only the good die young.”

Billy Joel

Only the Good Die Young.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)

Waiting , Cry

“We held the coastline
They held the highlands
And they were sharp
As sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive.
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together.”

Billy Joel

Goodnight Saigon
Song lyrics, The Nylon Curtain (1982)

Waiting

“So you play your albums and you smoke your pot
And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot
Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got,
What went wrong?
And if you can't understand why your world is so dead
And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head
Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed
And that's too long.”

Billy Joel

Captain Jack.
Song lyrics, Piano Man (1973)

World , Understanding , Dead

“She comes to me when I'm feelin' down
Inspires me without a sound
She touches me and I get turned around.”

Billy Joel

She's Got a Way.
Song lyrics, Cold Spring Harbor (1971)

“And every time I've held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns.
And so it goes, and so it goes.
And so will you soon I suppose.”

Billy Joel

And So It Goes.
Song lyrics, Storm Front (1989)

Time

“You don't have to start a fight
I'm a man who can't say no
If you've got a little risky business
Just point me where you want to go
Take me to the power
Take me to the heat
Take me to the cleaners
If it's open to the street
Something's got to pay off
Something's got to break
Someone's got a fortune that they're begging
Me to take.”

Billy Joel

Easy Money.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)

Business , Fight

“I can always find someone
To say they sympathize
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve.
But I don't want some pretty face
To tell me pretty lies.
All I want is someone to believe.”

Billy Joel

Honesty.
Song lyrics, 52nd Street (1978)

Heart