Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on… — 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 was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was… — 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
I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban 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
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 always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about. I remember reading about how the decline of… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap. — 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
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
