Music Quotes by Billy Squier

So everybody is trying to play like Eddie Van Halen. I think it's rubbish. I think Eddie's great, but everyone's trying to…

— Billy Squier

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song,…

— Billy Squier

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

— Billy Squier

I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.

— Billy Squier

For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of…

— Billy Squier

I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd…

— Billy Squier

I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.

— Billy Squier

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

— Billy Squier

When I write the songs, I don't dictate how people should interpret them.

— Billy Squier

Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that…

— Billy Squier

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

— Billy Squier

I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.

— Billy Squier

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist…

— Billy Squier

I was a good-looking, sexy guy. That certainly didn't hurt in promoting my music.

— Billy Squier

I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the…

— Billy Squier

My parents are proud of me now. However, when I first became involved with rock music, they were afraid.

— Billy Squier

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

— Billy Squier

Basically, my life was music, and I was always consumed by it.

— Billy Squier

My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses…

— Billy Squier

Heavy metal to me implies a relentless, pounding, hitting-people-over-the-head music. Trend setters tend to dismiss it as basic and simple, but all…

— Billy Squier

I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.

— Billy Squier

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave…

— Billy Squier

There's a time that you realize that you're not gonna get out of a room without playing certain songs.

— Billy Squier

Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the…

— Billy Squier