I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination,… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire,… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
