Quotes by Billy Joel

About Billy Joel:

William Martin is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States. His compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 is one of the best-selling albums in the United States by discs shipped.
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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

Artists - 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

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

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

Billy Joel

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

Billy Joel

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Billy Joel

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Billy Joel

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Billy Joel

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

Billy Joel

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

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Billy Joel

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Billy Joel

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Billy Joel

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

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

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Billy Joel

My songs are like my kids.

Billy Joel

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Billy Joel

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

Billy Joel

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

Billy Joel

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

Billy Joel

Author Bio

  • NameBilly Joel
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter and pianist
  • AliasesWilliam Martin Joel
  • BornMay 9, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Pianist; Composer; Musician
  • AwardsGrammy Legend Award; MusiCares Person Of The Year