I’ve crashed my car three times.
BILLY JOELI’ve crashed my car three times.
BILLY JOELYou want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOELRemember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOELWorking too hard can give you a heart-attack.
BILLY JOELWe’re on the verge of all things new.
BILLY JOELKnow what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
BILLY JOELYou only beat me if you get me to hate.
BILLY JOELWhy do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
BILLY JOELI don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
BILLY JOELMozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
BILLY JOELLike a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOELStreetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOELIn an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOELThough you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
BILLY JOELWe never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
BILLY JOEL