Billy Joel Quotes

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel

Music, Humanity, Healing

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

Fool, Thinking, Wish

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel

Age, Said, Makes

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
Billy Joel

Love, Alone, Crazy

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

Fun, Laugh, Rather

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

Keep, Sobriety, Drinking

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

Love, Time, Wasting

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
Billy Joel

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

Life, Around, Artist

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

Experience, Different, High

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

Music, Time, Give

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
Billy Joel

Fighter, Lover, Definitely

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Billy Joel

Family, Good, Understand

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel

Music, Today, American

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

Mistakes, Call, Truly

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

Good, Lost, Afraid

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

Bad, Opinion, Means

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
Billy Joel

Good, Die, Young

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

Fool, Care, Brings

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Billy Joel

Great, Fun, Strange

In 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 Joel

Age, Business, Crazy

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Billy Joel

Music, Art, Literature

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
Billy Joel

Music, Great, Art

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
Billy Joel

Movies, Rock, Country

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
Billy Joel

Music, Person, Met

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Nationality: American

Born: May 9, 1949

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