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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more. — Billy Joel

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

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

...And you're the only one who knows. — Billy Joel

Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart. — Billy Joel

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

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. — Billy Joel

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right. — Billy Joel

Only the good die young. — Billy Joel

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet. — Billy Joel

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now. — Billy Joel

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all. — Billy Joel

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. — Billy Joel

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone. — Billy Joel

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. — Billy Joel

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active. — Billy Joel

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled. — Billy Joel

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson ... and Placido Domingo. — Josh Young

Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do — Chuck Klosterman

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

They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't. — Billy Joel

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job. — Billy Joel

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned. — Billy Joel

If you could only hear what I dream. — Billy Joel

She's got a way about her,
And everywhere she goes,
a million dreams of love surround her,
everywhere. — Billy Joel

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school. — Billy Joel

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize ... Vienna waits for you. — Billy Joel

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. — Ben Folds

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

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

You can't go the distance with too much resistance — Billy Joel

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. — Billy Joel

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship. — Billy Joel

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

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes. — Billy Joel

I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.' — Garth Risk Hallberg

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable. — Billy Joel

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. — Billy Joel

She's got a smile that heals me. — Billy Joel

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

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. — Billy Joel

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

Give us this day our daily discount merchandise. — Billy Joel

I'm single but interviewing. — Billy Joel

I'm a history nut. — Billy Joel

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me. — Billy Joel

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. — Billy Joel

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by. — Billy Joel

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? — Billy Joel

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. — Billy Joel

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

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

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. — Billy Joel

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

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

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. — Billy Joel

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

music it says all the things that words alone can never say — Billy Joel

You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money? — Billy Joel

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes? — Billy Joel

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things. — Billy Joel

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter. — Billy Joel

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind. — Billy Joel

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

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel. — George Harrison

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. — Kyle Dunnigan

Every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns — Billy Joel

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

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then. — Billy Joel

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. — Billy Joel

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. — Billy Joel

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money. — Billy Joel

I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants. — Billy Joel

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania. — Billy Joel

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. — Billy Joel

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you. — Billy Joel

I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification. — Billy Joel

I've crashed my car three times. — Billy Joel

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life. — Billy Joel

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me. — Billy Joel

They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone. — Billy Joel

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible. — Billy Joel

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. — Billy Joel

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

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be — Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates. — Billy Joel

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. — Billy Joel

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. — Billy Joel

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands. — Billy Joel

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money. — Billy Joel

Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish ... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish. — Guy Oseary

We're on the verge of all things new. — Billy Joel

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose. — Billy Joel

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music. — Billy Joel

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

You can linger too long in your dreams... — Billy Joel

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe. — Billy Joel

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld. — Billy Joel

Drank a lot of take home pay. — Billy Joel