Quotes from Billy Joel

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

This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.

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

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

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.

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.

Home can be the Pennsylvania TurnpikeIndiana's early morning dewHigh up in the hills of CaliforniaHome is just another word for you

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.

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

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

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

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

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.

I'm a history nut.

Drank a lot of take home pay.

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

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

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.

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.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.