Billy Joel Quotes
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Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."
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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.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.billy
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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.