Billy Joel Quotes

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

You can’t go the distance with too much resistance

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

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.

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

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.

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

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

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

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

My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.

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

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.

You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.

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

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone.

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.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

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.

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!

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

My songs are like my kids.

If you could only hear what I dream.

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.

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.

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.

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

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

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.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

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.

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

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.

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

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

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, I've loved these days.

I've crashed my car three times.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.