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Billy Joel Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“My neighborhood, it’s not 'turn the other cheek.' Someone hits you, you hit ’em right back.”
— Billy Joel, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: turn the other cheek, Revenge
“Everybody’s got something they love to do and they should be doing and they have a talent at or a propensity for, and I see people kind of wasting their lives sometimes, just not really putting their talent to that purpose.”
— Billy Joel, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Talent, purpose, wasted talent
“You've got your passion, you've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?”
— Billy Joel, Vienna
Tagged: Passion, Pride, Fools, Satisfied
“Sure, I’ve got regrets. Anyone who’s really lived has regrets. If you have no regrets, what kind of life did you have?”
— Billy Joel, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Regrets
“We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.”
— Billy Joel, We Didn't Start the Fire
Tagged: Fire, Start, History, always burning, World, Existence
“That’s what I really wanted to do, is be a songwriter. I didn’t expect to be a rock star. My goal in life was actually to have other people do my songs. I started out as a songwriter.”
— Billy Joel, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Song
“Sing us a song, you're the piano man.”
— Billy Joel, Piano Man
Tagged: sing, Song, piano man, tunes
“You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need.”
— Billy Joel, Vienna
Tagged: Ahead, forget, Need, Yourself, Identity
“She's been living in her white bread world.”
— Billy Joel, Uptown Girl
Tagged: Living, white bread, World
“I don’t think so. It’s a job. I don’t walk around thinking, 'Hey, I’m a superstar,' and everything’s great. You know, it’s a job. I take off the hat when I go home. I take out the garbage, I cook food, I feed the dogs, I clean up the poop.”
— Billy Joel, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: superstar, Fame, Humiliate
“Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness.”
— Billy Joel, Piano Man
Tagged: sharing, Drink, Loneliness, Personification Examples
“I grew up in a neighborhood and it was mostly Irish and Italian and Polish. So everybody went to mass. I was in a Jewish family, but we never had any religious upbringing. The closest I got to Jewish was, you know, they clipped the tip. That was it. I had no say about that at all.”
— Billy Joel, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Jewish, irish, italian, Polish, Circumcision
“Making love to his tonic and gin.”
— Billy Joel, Piano Man
Tagged: Making Love, tonic, gin
“You'd better cool it off before you burn it out.”
— Billy Joel, Vienna
Tagged: cool, Chill, Burn out
“She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes.”
— Billy Joel, She's Always a Woman
Tagged: Kill, Smile, Wound, Eyes, Personification Examples
“Yeah she steals like a thief but she's always a woman to me.”
— Billy Joel, She's Always a Woman
Tagged: Steals, Thief, Woman
“It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in”
— Billy Joel, Billy Joel - Piano Man
Tagged: Best Opening Lyrics
“Well, it was sort of just an observation that you have your whole life to live. A lot of people in their twenties think they’ve got to get it all together by the time they’re thirty. And they kill themselves trying to get the golden ring by the time they’re thirty. You have an entire life to live. So the lyric 'Slow down, you crazy child'—you’ve got a whole life. We tend to put older people away, and by the time you’re middle-aged, you’re over the hill, and it’s all about young people. So I said, 'Wait a minute. Why do I have this whole lifespan?' What’s the point of it?”
— Billy Joel, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Meaning Of Life, Over the Hill
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