black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

Billy Joel

Why 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 JOEL

Causes Giving Musician
I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
BILLY JOEL

Faces Names Rock Roll
I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
BILLY JOEL

About Affecting Going Remember Song Valley
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

Mean Opinion Singers
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOEL

Blood Hot Writing
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
BILLY JOEL

Artist Perception Sea
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
BILLY JOEL

Kindness People Reality
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOEL

Art Literature Music
Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
BILLY JOEL

Inspiration Tangible Unseen
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Life Love Motivational
I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
BILLY JOEL

Man Rally Sweet Syre Younger
You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
BILLY JOEL

Hard Old Rock Roll
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
BILLY JOEL

Knows Right Wrong
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
BILLY JOEL

Moment Now South Trying
Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOEL

Empathy People Thinking
Mozart 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 JOEL

Beethoven Guys Phenomenal Productivity Some

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Billy Joel Quotes