Music Quotes by Billy Joel

My songs are like my kids.

— Billy Joel

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

— Billy Joel

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

— Billy Joel

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

— Billy Joel

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

— Billy Joel

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

— Billy Joel

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

— Billy Joel

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

— Billy Joel

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

— Billy Joel

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original…

— Billy Joel

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

— Billy Joel

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

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to…

— Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our…

— Billy Joel

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

— Billy Joel

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The…

— Billy Joel

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

I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about. I remember reading about how the decline of…

— Billy Joel

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

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

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.…

— Billy Joel

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around…

— Billy Joel

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to…

— Billy Joel

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

I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the…

— Billy Joel

Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug…

— Billy Joel

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now…

— Billy Joel

No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

— Billy Joel

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

— Billy Joel

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

— Billy Joel

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

— Billy Joel

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

— Billy Joel

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

— Billy Joel

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

— Billy Joel

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

— Billy Joel

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

— Billy Joel

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for…

— Billy Joel

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

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

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world…

— Billy Joel