Billy Joel Quotes

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

Of course making money and being able to live life the way one desires is important.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

Money equals freedom.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.'