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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. -- Billy Joel
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there. -- Billy Joel
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. -- Billy Joel
Only the good die young. -- Billy Joel
You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose. -- Billy Joel
I'm a history nut. -- 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
Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right. -- Billy Joel
Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real -- Billy Joel
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. -- Billy Joel
I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that. -- Billy Joel
If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way. -- Billy Joel
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see. -- Billy Joel
I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage.
I've found that just surviving is a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view.
And life went on no matter who as wrong or right. -- Billy Joel
Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics. -- Billy Joel
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal. -- Billy Joel
I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies. -- Billy Joel
There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin. -- Billy Joel
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. -- Billy Joel
You can get what you want or you can just get old. -- Billy Joel
Drank a lot of take home pay. -- Billy Joel
It feels great to have a #1 album. -- Billy Joel
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart. -- Billy Joel
Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me. -- Billy Joel
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
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. -- Billy Joel
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. -- Billy Joel
You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes. -- Billy Joel
In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken. -- Billy Joel
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me." -- Billy Joel
I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls. -- Billy Joel
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time. -- Billy Joel
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time. -- Billy Joel
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet. -- Billy Joel
I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe. -- Billy Joel
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money. -- Billy Joel
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
She's got a way about her,
And everywhere she goes,
a million dreams of love surround her,
everywhere. -- Billy Joel
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville. -- Billy Joel
We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. -- 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. -- Billy Joel
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years. -- Billy Joel
All she wanted was sax. -- Billy Joel
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 -- Billy Joel
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. -- Billy Joel
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. -- Billy Joel
Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation. -- Billy Joel
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter. -- Billy Joel
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. -- Billy Joel
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me. -- Billy Joel
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. -- Billy Joel
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
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack. -- Billy Joel
I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts. -- Billy Joel
Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Indiana's early morning dew
High up in the hills of California
Home is just another word for you -- Billy Joel
She's got a smile that heals me. -- Billy Joel
I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that." -- Billy Joel
Son, can you play me a memory. I'm not really sure how it goes. It was sad and it was sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes. -- Billy Joel
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
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. -- Billy Joel
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
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool. -- Billy Joel
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
The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets. -- Billy Joel
I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right. -- Billy Joel
What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you? -- Billy Joel
Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by. -- Billy Joel
I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice. -- Billy Joel
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
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 -- Billy Joel
There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck ... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago ... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck. -- Billy Joel
Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave. -- Billy Joel
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. -- Billy Joel
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone. -- Billy Joel
People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money. -- Billy Joel
You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money? -- Billy Joel
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
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
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans. -- Billy Joel
You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame. -- Billy Joel
I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned. -- Billy Joel
Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before. -- Billy Joel
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams. -- Billy Joel
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness. -- Billy Joel
They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone. -- Billy Joel
I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another. -- Billy Joel
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. -- Billy Joel
Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do -- Billy Joel
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. -- Billy Joel
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. -- Billy Joel
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. -- Billy Joel
It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand. -- Billy Joel
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 -- Billy Joel
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home. -- Billy Joel
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
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld. -- Billy Joel
Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more. -- Billy Joel
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize ... Vienna waits for you. -- Billy Joel
I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice. -- Billy Joel
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. -- Billy Joel
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere. -- Billy Joel
I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore. -- Billy Joel
People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands. -- Billy Joel
Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again. -- Billy Joel
I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording. -- Billy Joel
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. -- Billy Joel
As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful. -- Billy Joel
I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates. -- Billy Joel
I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for. -- Billy Joel
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
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. -- Billy Joel
Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for. -- Billy Joel
Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance? -- Billy Joel
music it says all the things that words alone can never say -- Billy Joel
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait. -- Billy Joel
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. -- Billy Joel
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active. -- Billy Joel
It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong. -- Billy Joel
It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible. -- Billy Joel
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now. -- Billy Joel
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 -- Billy Joel
The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible. -- Billy Joel
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable. -- Billy Joel
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania. -- Billy Joel
You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school. -- Billy Joel
I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you. -- Billy Joel
This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to. -- Billy Joel
They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone. -- Billy Joel
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. -- Billy Joel
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all. -- Billy Joel
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. -- Billy Joel
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. -- Billy Joel
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. -- Billy Joel
Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see. -- Billy Joel
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. -- Billy Joel
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
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it -- Billy Joel
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand. -- Billy Joel
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be -- Billy Joel
I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right. -- Billy Joel
...And you're the only one who knows. -- Billy Joel
I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same. -- Billy Joel
You can speak your mind But not on my time. -- Billy Joel
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans. -- Billy Joel
Out of respect for the 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. -- Billy Joel
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans. -- Billy Joel
I'm in a New York state of mind -- Billy Joel
There ain't no island left for islanders like me. -- Billy Joel
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. -- Billy Joel
You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now. -- Billy Joel
Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West. -- Billy Joel
I'm single but interviewing. -- Billy Joel
We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes. -- Billy Joel
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
-- Billy Joel
I don't know why I go to extremes. -- Billy Joel
I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true. -- Billy Joel
I watched the mighty skyline fall -- Billy Joel
You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird. -- Billy Joel
Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation. -- Billy Joel
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. -- Billy Joel
If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want. -- Billy Joel
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. -- Billy Joel
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. -- Billy Joel
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing. -- Billy Joel
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
We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes. -- Billy Joel
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue ... -- Billy Joel
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. -- Billy Joel
Do what's good for you
Or you're not good for anybody -- Billy Joel
If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind. -- Billy Joel
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. -- Billy Joel
You may be wrong, but you may be right. -- Billy Joel
You only beat me if you get me to hate. -- Billy Joel
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. -- Billy Joel
Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be -- Billy Joel
Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger. -- Billy Joel
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. -- Billy Joel
So before we end and then begin, we'll drink a toast to how it's been. A few more hours to be complete, a few more nights on satin sheets. A few more times that I can say, that I've loved these days. -- Billy Joel
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares. -- Billy Joel
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years? -- Billy Joel
They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't. -- Billy Joel
I've crashed my car three times. -- Billy Joel
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. -- Billy Joel
You can linger too long in your dreams... -- Billy Joel
It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two -- Billy Joel
People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies. -- Billy Joel
Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand. -- Billy Joel
There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks. -- Billy Joel
Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation. -- Billy Joel
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts ... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for. -- Billy Joel
Advice is cheap; you can take it from me. -- Billy Joel
I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification. -- Billy Joel
Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand. -- Billy Joel
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. -- Billy Joel
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. -- Billy Joel
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one -- Billy Joel
I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are. -- Billy Joel
I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes? -- Billy Joel
Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money. -- Billy Joel
Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face. -- Billy Joel
The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here? -- Billy Joel
Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender. -- Billy Joel
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along -- Billy Joel
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are. -- Billy Joel
I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal. -- Billy Joel
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. -- Billy Joel
I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from. -- Billy Joel
Every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns -- Billy Joel
If you could only hear what I dream. -- Billy Joel
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. -- Billy Joel
Give us this day our daily discount merchandise. -- Billy Joel
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship. -- Billy Joel
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? -- Billy Joel
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled. -- Billy Joel
I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93. -- Billy Joel
You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you. -- Billy Joel
Sing us a song you're the piano man.
Sing us a song tonight.
Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,
And you've got us feeling all right. -- Billy Joel
Some people find it's easier to hate. -- Billy Joel
Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why. -- Billy Joel
If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime. -- Billy Joel
So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break -- Billy Joel
She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes. -- Billy Joel
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time. -- Billy Joel
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting. -- Billy Joel
She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal. -- Billy Joel
I don't know why people thought I was retiring. -- Billy Joel
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
Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then. -- Billy Joel
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
Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged. -- Billy Joel
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap. -- Billy Joel
I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man. -- Billy Joel
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking. -- Billy Joel
I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants. -- 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
I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. -- Billy Joel
What if she figures out you're not very smart? -- Billy Joel
You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for -- Billy Joel
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. -- Billy Joel
You can't go the distance with too much resistance -- Billy Joel
My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane! -- Billy Joel
My songs are like my kids. -- Billy Joel
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off. -- Billy Joel
They are sharing a drink called loneliness. -- Billy Joel
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music. -- Billy Joel
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection. -- Billy Joel
I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things. -- Billy Joel
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. -- Billy Joel
We're on the verge of all things new. -- Billy Joel
Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire. -- Billy Joel
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life. -- Billy Joel
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. -- Billy Joel
You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. -- Billy Joel
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. -- Billy Joel
I always hated my hair, so now it's going away. -- Billy Joel
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent. -- Billy Joel
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. -- Billy Joel
She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding. -- Billy Joel
