Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though… — 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
I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. — 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
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me." — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody,… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world… — 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
