Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
BILLY JOELWhen I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
More Billy Joel Quotes
-
-
I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
BILLY JOEL -
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
BILLY JOEL -
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
BILLY JOEL -
Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
BILLY JOEL -
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOEL -
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.
BILLY JOEL -
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
BILLY JOEL -
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
BILLY JOEL -
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOEL -
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
BILLY JOEL -
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOEL -
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
BILLY JOEL -
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
BILLY JOEL -
…And you’re the only one who knows.
BILLY JOEL -
There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
BILLY JOEL