I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOELI was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOELI consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
BILLY JOELHonesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
BILLY JOELevery time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOELWell we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
BILLY JOELI believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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 JOELThough you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
BILLY JOELI see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOELI’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
BILLY JOELThey say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
BILLY JOELI sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
BILLY JOELIn hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
BILLY JOELYou can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
BILLY JOELWe’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
BILLY JOEL