When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. – Billy Joel
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. – Billy Joel
When I was 19, I made my first good weeks pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked. – Billy Joel
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? – Billy Joel
Ive never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didnt work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine. – Beth Ditto