Billy Joel Quotes
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
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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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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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So before we end and then begin, we'll drink a toast to how it's been. A few more hours to be complete, a few more nights on satin sheets. A few more times that I can say, that I've loved these days.
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You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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Some people sleep all alone every night Instead of taking a lover to bed Some people find that it's easier to hate Than to wait anymore.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.
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I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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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.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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I know that everybody has a dream Everybody has a dream And this is my dream, my own Just to be at home And to be all alone . . . with you.