Billy Joel Quotes

“❝Don't take any shit from anybody.❞”
― Billy Joel

“♪♫ no one’s gonna play this on the radio ♫♪ Billy Joel

So why’s he wasting his time? Because he loves the music, that’s why. And he’s not wasting his time is he? He’s following his dream, doing what he loves. Perhaps if more of us followed our dreams – really followed our own dreams, not someone else’s nutty ideology - the world might be a nicer place to reside in.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“He tried to get drunk, “to forget about life for awhile,” as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.”
― Keith Steinbaum, The Poe Consequence

“Can Santa Muerte cry? Of course. Saints are, by nature, particularly lachrymal creatures—even Billy Joel knew that.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Somewhere, the radio was playing—WCRB again, soft classical. I didn’t register it at first. I was too busy putting my keys down, toeing off my shoes, breathing into the hush. But then the melody changed.

Piano. Slow. Familiar.


It was Adagio cantabile.

Not Joel’s version, with its doo-wop backbone and lovesick harmonies.

Beethoven’s.

The real thing.”
― Alex Diaz-Granados, Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen : A Jim Garraty Story