Billy Joel And Quotations

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.

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

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

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

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

All she wanted was sax.

I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.