Billy Joel quote: "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."

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

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B...
BILLY JOEL

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

If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL

[Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL

Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL

I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL

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

Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL

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

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...
BILLY JOEL

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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL

The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
BILLY JOEL

They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rat...
BILLY JOEL

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

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something...
BILLY JOEL

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

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can giv...
BILLY JOEL

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being...
BILLY JOEL

I've crashed my car three times.
BILLY JOEL

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better w...
BILLY JOEL

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too famili...
BILLY JOEL

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without ...
BILLY JOEL

If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my you...
BILLY JOEL

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

It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
BILLY JOEL

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call you...
BILLY JOEL

Don't wait for answers... Just take your chances!Don't ask me why.
BILLY JOEL

And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
BILLY JOEL

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn...
BILLY JOEL

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who ne...
BILLY JOEL

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most s...
BILLY JOEL

They say that these are not the best of timesBut they're the only times I've ever knownAnd I believe...
BILLY JOEL

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to...
BILLY JOEL

We might be laughing a bit too loudBut that never hurt no one.
BILLY JOEL

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOEL

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do...
BILLY JOEL

Don't wait for answers... Just take your chances!
Don't ask me why.
BILLY JOEL

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

I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can...
BILLY JOEL

I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after...
BILLY JOEL

Singles don't represent me. Albums do.
BILLY JOEL

No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
BILLY JOEL

I ride my own motorcycles, People are like, 'God, the guy is bad enough on cars!' Actually I have a ...
BILLY JOEL

We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
BILLY JOEL

You can walk away from your mistakes.You can turn your back on what you do.Just a little smile is al...
BILLY JOEL

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights.....
BILLY JOEL

You've got your passion. You've got your pride.But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?Drea...
BILLY JOEL

I don't know if people are going to remember some of these songs we're going to do tonight. Hell, I ...
BILLY JOEL

Drank a lot of take home pay.
BILLY JOEL

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL

It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's...
BILLY JOEL

I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
BILLY JOEL

have a good reason to be scared.
BILLY JOEL

Only the Good Die Young
BILLY JOEL

Went off to school, and learned to serve the state.Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight....
BILLY JOEL

Slow down, you crazy child.You're so ambitious for a juvenile.
BILLY JOEL

Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
BILLY JOEL

They all want your white body, and they await your reply.But, between you and me, and this Staten Is...
BILLY JOEL

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

She's got a smile that heals meI don't know why it isBut I have to laugh when she reveals me.
BILLY JOEL

I know that everybody has a dreamEverybody has a dreamAnd this is my dream, my ownJust to be at home...
BILLY JOEL

She can kill with a smile,She can wound with her eyes.
BILLY JOEL

You may never understandHow the Stranger is inspired,But he is not always evil,And he is not always ...
BILLY JOEL

There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets ...
BILLY JOEL

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.
BILLY JOEL

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time ....
BILLY JOEL

If you said good-bye to me tonight,There would still be music left to write.
BILLY JOEL

Don't go changing, to try and please meYou never let me down before.
BILLY JOEL

When you look into my eyesAnd you see the crazy gypsy in my soulIt always comes as a surpriseWhen I ...
BILLY JOEL

Some people sleep all alone every nightInstead of taking a lover to bedSome people find that it's ea...
BILLY JOEL

I see the winos talking to themselvesAnd I can understand.
BILLY JOEL

What will it take till you believe in meThe way that I believe in you.
BILLY JOEL

I don't care what you say anymore, this is my lifeGo ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
BILLY JOEL

In every heart there is a roomA sanctuary safe and strongTo heal the wounds from lovers pastUntil a ...
BILLY JOEL

Call me a joker, call me a foolRight at this moment I'm totally cool.
BILLY JOEL

Slow down you're doing fineYou can't be everything you want to beBefore your time.
BILLY JOEL

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair. . . .
I could not love...
BILLY JOEL

In every heart there is a room
A sanctuary safe and strong
To heal the wounds from lovers pa...
BILLY JOEL

Slow down you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want to be
Before your time.
BILLY JOEL

But I don't want some pretty face
To tell me pretty lies
All I want is someone to believe.
BILLY JOEL

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good t...
BILLY JOEL

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes t...
BILLY JOEL

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
BILLY JOEL

As an atheist you have to rationalize things. . . . Then you have to try and make some sort of sense...
BILLY JOEL

They showed you a statue and told you to prayThey built you a temple and locked you awayBut they nev...
BILLY JOEL

I promised I would never leave youAnd you should always knowWherever you may goNo matter where you a...
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 Yo...
BILLY JOEL

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
BILLY JOEL

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought t...
BILLY JOEL

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect...
BILLY JOEL

What if she figures out you're not very smart?
BILLY JOEL

But I don't want some pretty faceTo tell me pretty liesAll I want is someone to believe.
BILLY JOEL

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow a...
BILLY JOEL

Honesty is such a lonely wordEveryone is so untrueHonest is hardly ever heardAnd mostly what I need ...
BILLY JOEL

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

People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't...
BILLY JOEL

You Catholic girls start much too lateBut sooner or later it comes down to fateI might as well be th...
BILLY JOEL

You can speak your mindBut not on my time.
BILLY JOEL

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
BILLY JOEL

You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall o...
BILLY JOEL

The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with ...
BILLY JOEL

I know I'm searching for somethingSomething so undefinedThat it can only be seenBy the eyes of the b...
BILLY JOEL

If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right
BILLY JOEL

She will promise you moreThan the Garden of EdenThen she'll carelessly cut youAnd laugh while you're...
BILLY JOEL

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and t...
BILLY JOEL

If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehi...
BILLY JOEL

You may be rightI may be crazyBut it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
BILLY JOEL

If I'm crazy then it's trueThat it's all because of youAnd you wouldn't want me any other way.
BILLY JOEL

Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
BILLY JOEL

We all have a face that we hide away forever,And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone h...
BILLY JOEL

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
BILLY JOEL

Don't be afraid to try againEveryone goes southEvery now and then.
BILLY JOEL

I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we k...
BILLY JOEL

They're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut it's better than drinking alone.
BILLY JOEL

You've got yoga honeyI've got beerYou got overpricedAnd I got weird.
BILLY JOEL

Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other...
BILLY JOEL

There's an old man sitting next to meMaking love to his tonic and gin.
BILLY JOEL

...And you're the only one who knows.
BILLY JOEL

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says...
BILLY JOEL

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me e...
BILLY JOEL

You can get what you want or you can just get old.
BILLY JOEL

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,
For the Pennsylvania we never found,
For the promise...
BILLY JOEL

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something...
BILLY JOEL

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from ...
BILLY JOEL

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about ...
BILLY JOEL

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

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking t...
BILLY JOEL

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

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the spe...
BILLY JOEL

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

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception...
BILLY JOEL

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can tr...
BILLY JOEL

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of o...
BILLY JOEL

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
BILLY JOEL

So before we end and then begin
We'll drink a toast to how it's been
A few more hours to b...
BILLY JOEL

Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma
And the law just could not seem to track him down<...
BILLY JOEL

Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool.
BILLY JOEL

I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only d...
BILLY JOEL

the words of a madman are only chaos to the sane.
-JOEL

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
BILLY JOEL "THE LONGEST TIME"

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
JOEL OSTEEN

When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to jus...
JOEL OSTEEN

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
JOEL MCHALE

God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.
JOEL OSTEEN

A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig ...
JOEL SALATIN

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though,...
JOEL OSTEEN

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best d...
JOEL OSTEEN

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to...
JOEL OSTEEN

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.
JOEL OSTEEN

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good g...
JOEL KINNAMAN

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
JOEL OSTEEN

I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrin...
JOEL OSTEEN

I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.
JOEL KINNAMAN

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of be...
JOEL EDGERTON

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.
JOEL EDGERTON

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
JOEL MCHALE

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and...
JOEL MCHALE

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be ...
JOEL MCHALE

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while yo...
JOEL MCHALE

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor need...
JOEL MCHALE

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.
JOEL MCHALE

If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
JOEL MCHALE

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair gla...
JOEL MCHALE

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty r...
JOEL MCHALE

Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.
JOEL MCHALE

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a s...
JOEL COEN

Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as we...
JOEL FUHRMAN

Combine anti-cancer foods to maximize protection against all cancers: A number of plant foods are as...
JOEL FUHRMAN

Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message tha...
JOEL SALATIN

Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCa...
JOEL BENENSON

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to g...
JOEL OSTEEN

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.
JOEL EDGERTON

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the ...
JOEL SALATIN

Humor is a universal lanuage.
JOEL GOODMAN

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God...
JOEL OSTEEN

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad to...
JOEL OSTEEN

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn'...
JOEL EDGERTON

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is r...
JOEL OSTEEN

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
JOEL ROSENBERG

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!
JOEL OSTEEN

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have ...
JOEL OSTEEN

Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.
JOEL OSTEEN

He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the resp...
JOEL HAWES

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an obj...
JOEL HAWES

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Visi...
JOEL BARKER

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.
JOEL OSTEEN

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
JOEL SALATIN

The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many way...
JOEL KINNAMAN

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in t...
JOEL KINNAMAN

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie ...
JOEL COEN

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that wi...
JOEL OSTEEN

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools...
JOEL SALATIN

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.

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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

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