Top 200 Billy Joel Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.”

— Billy Joel

54. “I’m carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.”

— Billy Joel

55. “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

56. “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

57. “Everyone is a hypocrite in one sense or another and I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”

— Billy Joel

58. “More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.”

— Billy Joel

59. “They are sharing a drink called loneliness.”

— Billy Joel

60. “I’ve crashed my car three times.”

— Billy Joel

61. “If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.”

— Billy Joel

62. “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

63. “I’ve learned to dance with a hand in my pants.”

— Billy Joel

64. “What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?”

— Billy Joel

65. “Drank a lot of take home pay.”

— Billy Joel

66. “Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.”

— Billy Joel

67. “She’s the quiet type who’s into heavy metal.”

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

69. “Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.”

— Billy Joel

70. “Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.”

— Billy Joel

71. “No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.”

— Billy Joel

72. “You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?”

— Billy Joel

73. “I’ve reached the age where competence is a turn-on.”

— Billy Joel

74. “Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.”

— Billy Joel

75. “She’s got a smile that heals me.”

— Billy Joel

76. “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

77. “You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.”

— Billy Joel

78. “There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.”

— Billy Joel

79. “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

80. “I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.”

— Billy Joel

81. “The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.”

— Billy Joel

82. “I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.”

— Billy Joel

83. “They’re sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it’s better than drinking alone.”

— Billy Joel

84. “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

85. “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

86. “I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.”

— Billy Joel

87. “You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.”

— Billy Joel

88. “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

89. “I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.”

— Billy Joel

90. “Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.”

— Billy Joel

91. “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

92. “I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.”

— Billy Joel

93. “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

94. “It didn’t matter that I felt like a fool ’cause I forgot when she walked through the door.”

— Billy Joel

95. “If you could only hear what I dream.”

— Billy Joel

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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