Billy Joel
Related Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. BILL GRIFFITH 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON ETTA JAMES They know how important this tournament is for our country. We love to play baseball. What better ch... STAN JAVIER WYNTON MARSALIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES What Delaware needs to stay competitive is a whole new scene, and that is to create a entertainment ... CLAIRE M. DEMATTEIS Rock and roll is one of the great American art forms, just like jazz, blues, and bluegrass. We love ... TOM SMITH When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, a... JASON ROBERT BROWN ORIANA FALLACI I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-rol... ROBBY KRIEGER GAVIN DEGRAW CHARLIE WATTS rock 'n' roll, jazz and traditional folk culture. ROBERT HUNTER LADY GAGA Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ... MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. ROBERT PLANT JOSH HUTCHERSON TEDDY THOMPSON SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCE Sex and drugs and rock and roll. IAN DURY ADAM ANT Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became ... EMIR KUSTURICA I liked all music when I was a kid: blues, rock 'n' roll, country and reggae. I don't think I can pl... GEORGE THOROGOOD Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he w... GUY OSEARY GARTH RISK HALLBERG I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anythi... LA INDIA We love rock 'n' roll. Being able to do what we do every night ? seeing the country and, hopefully, ... AUGIE VISOCCHI Other than that, I've taken grief my whole life over the way I played and this and that. I let the c... BOB GOLIC It was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. It's Billy Joel - what else do you have to say? JOSH DAVIS LUPE FIASCO MATISYAHU Jazz is one of the great, truly native American art forms. Along with the movies, it's probably the ... DANA GIOIA I never had a chance to go the Olympics or Pan American Games. Just having a chance to put that jers... ALEX CORA His style is sort of pop, like Billy Joel or Elton John. CHRIS BRANDON RAF SIMONS Rock and roll is here to stay. NEIL YOUNG This is what our country is all about. Everybody is proud of their American citizenship and they wan... MICHAEL YOUNG Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you th... MAC DAVIS JEFF SESSIONS It's an extremely difficult time for both the airline and the industry and the cuts we're proposing ... JON AUSTIN Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is... DAN AUERBACH I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movi... JASON REITMAN KEVIN PATTERSON KEVIN PATTERSON Our whole dynamic is kind of based around that push and pull. Marco is a very skilled jazz musician ... JOE RUSSO Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down,... MARSHAWN LYNCH There is something for everyone. From hard rock to slow ballads, stripped down rock and roll to old ... WAYNE LEE CALEB LANDRY JONES There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock... JOHN VARVATOS BILLY JOEL KURT COBAIN BILLY CORGAN You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex. RICK JAMES Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place. BEN FOLDS Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wea... BRAD HOLLAND Loves by all pros and cons is better than force it to look perfect CG9SYXJHZGL0AWE= When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede ... BOBBY KEYS JULIETTE LEWIS JOHN LENNON I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be ... ATUL GAWANDE Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used ... MEAT LOAF For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listen... DARIUS RUCKER PETER YORK SUFJAN STEVENS New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock. GYORGY LIGETI We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by A... MARGARET WHITING ELIZABETH ESTY JONATHAN SWIFT JOSEPH CONRAD SHASHI THAROOR What we wanted to do more than anything was to get people in there and into our jeans. ERICA ARCHAMBAULT I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship... ADRIAN MITCHELL To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN YANNI ACTION BRONSON HELEN THOMAS The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are ... TIM RYAN I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than '... RANDY WEST Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock cr... ADAM RICH What better way to send your regards to Broadway and to New York than by coming to New York and gett... CAROLYN MALONEY VANCE PACKARD YOKO ONO CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass,... RANDY BACHMAN My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You wan... ABEL FERRARA It's exciting. It's a double dose of Billy Joel. BARBARA BOCHNER MARK TWAIN That kid loves basketball more than probably the whole rest of this whole community. ROB PORRITT WENDELL BERRY WAYLON JENNINGS C. JOYBELL C. I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and... BOZ SCAGGS CHUCK BERRY Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. BEN FOLDS CHARLIE KAUFMAN Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Roc... ADAM RICH ERIC SCHLOSSER SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE
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I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just... 
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form th... 
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock ... 
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record. 
Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken. 
My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, ... 
T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and je... 
I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American... 
If you represent our country, it should represent us. It's supposed to be a two-way thing, but w... 
I'm a rock and roll singer. 
I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'E... 
I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesse... 
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll. 
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno. 
The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and... 
The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler ... 
I usually listen to classic rock and roll. 
You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall o... 
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! 
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice. 
What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it... 
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christi... 
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ... 
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves ... 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq ... 
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify mus... 
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listen... 
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps,... 
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. 
Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll. 
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt. 
Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, mu... 
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh... 
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Roc... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about... 
CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural ... 
Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. 
Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should... 
If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially. 
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to jus... 
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig ... 
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to... 
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of be... 
I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you. 
Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as we... 
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message tha... 
Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond. 
He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the resp...