Top 200 Billy Joel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.”

— Billy Joel

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2. “Only the good die young.”

— Billy Joel

3. “Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...”

— Billy Joel

4. “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

5. “Take risks. Take chances. Don’t be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.”

— Billy Joel

6. “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

7. “I’m in a New York state of mind.”

— Billy Joel

8. “We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.”

— Billy Joel

9. “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”

— Billy Joel

10. “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

11. “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

12. “You may be wrong, but you may be right.”

— Billy Joel

13. “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

14. “Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”

— Billy Joel

15. “We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.”

— Billy Joel

16. “They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.”

— Billy Joel

17. “Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.”

— Billy Joel

18. “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

19. “It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.”

— Billy Joel

20. “I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.”

— Billy Joel

21. “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

22. “She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.”

— Billy Joel

23. “You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.”

— Billy Joel

24. “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

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25. “Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.”

— Billy Joel

26. “Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.”

— Billy Joel

27. “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

28. “Do what you love, and you’ll always love what you do.”

— Billy Joel

29. “It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two.”

— Billy Joel

30. “You can speak your mind But not on my time.”

— Billy Joel

31. “I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.”

— Billy Joel

32. “Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.”

— Billy Joel

33. “I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.”

— Billy Joel

34. “And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.”

— Billy Joel

35. “Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.”

— Billy Joel

36. “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

37. “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

38. “I don’t want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.”

— Billy Joel

39. “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

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40. “You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.”

— Billy Joel

41. “You’ll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.”

— Billy Joel

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

46. “Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems.”

— Billy Joel

47. “My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!”

— Billy Joel

48. “There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.”

— Billy Joel

49. “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

50. “I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.”

— Billy Joel