Top 200 Billy Joel Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I’m sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.”

— Billy Joel

103. “Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.”

— Billy Joel

104. “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

105. “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

106. “I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.”

— Billy Joel

107. “I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.”

— Billy Joel

108. “Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.”

— Billy Joel

109. “I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.”

— Billy Joel

110. “There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.”

— Billy Joel

111. “Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.”

— Billy Joel

112. “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

113. “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

114. “It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.”

— Billy Joel

115. “Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.””

— Billy Joel

116. “I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.”

— Billy Joel

117. “I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.”

— Billy Joel

118. “You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.”

— Billy Joel

119. “You can linger too long in your dreams...”

— Billy Joel

120. “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

121. “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

122. “The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.”

— Billy Joel

123. “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

124. “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

125. “Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.”

— Billy Joel

126. “Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?”

— Billy Joel

127. “A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.”

— Billy Joel

128. “Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.”

— Billy Joel

129. “We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.”

— Billy Joel

130. “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

131. “Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.”

— Billy Joel

132. “The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.”

— Billy Joel

133. “I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.”

— Billy Joel

134. “Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.”

— Billy Joel

135. “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

136. “Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.”

— Billy Joel

137. “They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.”

— Billy Joel

138. “We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.”

— Billy Joel

139. “I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.”

— Billy Joel

140. “You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.”

— Billy Joel

141. “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

142. “All she wanted was sax.”

— Billy Joel

143. “Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.”

— Billy Joel

144. “Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.”

— Billy Joel

145. “Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.”

— Billy Joel

146. “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

147. “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

148. “Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.”

— Billy Joel

149. “Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.”

— Billy Joel

150. “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