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
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
It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little… — 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
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
Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what?… — 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
