Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOELIf you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
More Billy Joel Quotes
-
-
There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
BILLY JOEL -
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
BILLY JOEL -
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 -
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
BILLY JOEL -
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOEL -
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
BILLY JOEL -
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL -
So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
BILLY JOEL -
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOEL -
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
BILLY JOEL -
There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
BILLY JOEL -
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
BILLY JOEL -
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL -
I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
BILLY JOEL -
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
BILLY JOEL