Song Quotes by Billy Joel

You can speak your mind But not on my time.

— Billy Joel

My songs are like my kids.

— 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

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.

— Billy Joel

Rock and roll used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

— Billy Joel

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

— Billy Joel

She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.

— 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

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

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

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

— 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

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

— Billy Joel

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread…

— Billy Joel

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

— 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

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

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

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

— Billy Joel

I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was…

— Billy Joel

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

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

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

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

— Billy Joel

Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

— Billy Joel

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

— Billy Joel

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

— 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

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

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

— Billy Joel

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the…

— Billy Joel

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest…

— Billy Joel

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

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

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote…

— Billy Joel