Joel Quotes

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.

We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.

I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish.

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.