Billy Joel People Quotations

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

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

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

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

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.

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

Some people find it's easier to hate.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,

There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.

People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only difference is the scale. People seem to think my problems are larger than life, but they're not larger than my life.

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

Some people sleep all alone every nightInstead of taking a lover to bedSome people find that it's easier to hateThan to wait anymore.

Rolling Stone magazine would not say anything positive about me, and they were the tastemakers at the time. There were people from the old guard who insisted I wasn't a real rock and roller. Well, O.K., fine -- I'm not a real rock and roller. You got me.

I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don't these people ever watch ""Behind the Music""? It's a cliche. If I had known that the story was going to be reported in the way that it was, I would have considered not going at all.

I'm kind of in a dark place. And I know some people are actually excited about that, because they think I'll write an album about being sad. But that's not what my music is about. There have been times when I've done that, but I'm not going to do it again.

I ride my own motorcycles, People are like, 'God, the guy is bad enough on cars!' Actually I have a better track record on bikes than I do with cars.

Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.

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