You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
BILLY JOELYou can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
BILLY JOELHonesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOELevery time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOELI don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
BILLY JOELI’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
BILLY JOELSo I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
BILLY JOELMost people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOELThere will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
BILLY JOELThough you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
BILLY JOELThere are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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BILLY JOELI won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
BILLY JOELThey are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOELWhen 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 JOELSo many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
BILLY JOELWhen I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
BILLY JOEL