If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — 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
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I said I love you and that's forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only… — 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… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
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 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
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
I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe. — Billy Joel Copy Share
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
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
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
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
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — Billy Joel Copy Share
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I… — Billy Joel Copy Share
