List of Billy Joel Quotes

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Billy Joel
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I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. we're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. so i'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.
Years Water Done
I was listening to stuff and i realized that i've had a lot of different lives. you know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? i think that's true.
Thinking Years Listening
I look at some of the songs i wrote years ago and i can't believe i wrote such crap.
Song Believe Years
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before i was in the music business. i liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.
Teacher Impact Trying
Some of the stuff i'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the church of christ in hicksville.
Writing Hymns Singing
I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
Guy Pedestal Slippers
I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. but my first love was really the music itself, and i guess i've gone back to that.
First Love Giving Gone
I'm a piano player. i never thought of myself as a singer, at all. i was always trying to sound like somebody else. i don't like my own voice, i like ray charles, robert plant, i like joe cocker, rod stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
Player Voice Piano
I never stopped writing music, i just stopped writing songs. i've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "river of dreams" in '93.
Dream Song Writing
I started just concentrating on songwriting when i was abut 20; i'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, i said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. so what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."
Song Stars Writing
I'm writing new music all the time. i'm just not writing pop stuff. it's not my goal.
Writing Goal Stuff
If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
Might Crime Tendencies
  • Born: May 9, 1949
  • Occupation: Pianist
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