Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
Billy Joel
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
Winos
Insanity
Talking
Understand
More quotes by Billy Joel
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
Billy Joel
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
Billy Joel
It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
Billy Joel
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
Billy Joel
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
Billy Joel
In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.
Billy Joel
Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
Billy Joel
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
Billy Joel
There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
Billy Joel
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
Billy Joel
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
Billy Joel
We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it
Billy Joel
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
Billy Joel
She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
Billy Joel
Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
Billy Joel
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
Billy Joel