Billy Joel Quotes

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I know I'm not musically talented.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I was always good at music.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

I play no instruments.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.