Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Billy Joel
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Song
Women
Music
Reason
Meet
Writing
Songs
Started
Probably
More quotes by Billy Joel
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
Billy Joel
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
Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
Billy Joel
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
Billy Joel
Advice is cheap you can take it from me.
Billy Joel
People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.
Billy Joel
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
Billy Joel
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.
Billy Joel
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
Billy Joel
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
Billy Joel
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
Billy Joel
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
Billy Joel
I'm single but interviewing.
Billy Joel
You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
Billy Joel
I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
Billy Joel
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
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
Billy Joel
You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
Billy Joel
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
Billy Joel
