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 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'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire,… — 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
Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your… — 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
