Billy Joel Quotes on Life (11 Quotes)

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

Went off to school, and learned to serve the state.Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight.The only way to live was 'drown the hate'.The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.

You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don't have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.

If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles

Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

I've only felt content a few times in my life, and it never lasted. I'm very discontented right now. There are situations in my life that didn't pan out. I'm like most other human beings. I try and I fail.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.