Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOELI’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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