Top 200 Billy Joel Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

105. “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

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

— Billy Joel

107. “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

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

112. “Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.”

— 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. “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

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

118. “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

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

121. “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

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

125. “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

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

— Billy Joel

127. “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

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

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

— Billy Joel

133. “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

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

138. “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

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

— Billy Joel

143. “I’m a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.”

— Billy Joel

144. “All she wanted was sax.”

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

147. “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

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

— Billy Joel

149. “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

150. “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