Quote

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Billy Joel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
World
Popular
Product
Radio
Canned
Products
Processed
Heard
Lately
American
Halloween
Today
Listened
Music
Frozen

More quotes by Billy Joel

Image
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel
Image
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Billy Joel
Image
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel
Image
Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real
Billy Joel
Image
People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
Billy Joel
Image
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
Billy Joel
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? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
Billy Joel
Image
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
Billy Joel
Image
I'm single but interviewing.
Billy Joel
Image
She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
Billy Joel
Image
Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
Billy Joel
Image
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Billy Joel
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 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
Billy Joel
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 you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
Billy Joel
Image
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
Billy Joel
Image
They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel
Image
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
Billy Joel
Image
My songs are like my kids.
Billy Joel
Image
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
Billy Joel
Image
I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
Billy Joel