Famous Quotes

"I'm a history nut."

Billy Joel on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Billy Joel

• "I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

• "In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."

• "As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us."

• "More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."

• "In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."