"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

Age, Incompetence

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

Exlpore more Age quotes

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Age, Society, Money, Class

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Impact, Success, Motivation

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, Technology

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Age, Service

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Love, Man, Old

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Man

Explore more quotes by Billy Joel

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."

Music

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

Mistake

"It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible."

Living

"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."

Age

"I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes."

Mistake

"Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?"

Thought

"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."

Movies

"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."

Education

"I'm a history nut."

History

"My songs are like my kids."

Kids