Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
BILLY JOELI keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
More Billy Joel Quotes
-
-
I’ve crashed my car three times.
BILLY JOEL -
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
BILLY JOEL -
Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
BILLY JOEL -
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOEL -
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
BILLY JOEL -
Only the good die young.
BILLY JOEL -
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
BILLY JOEL -
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.
BILLY JOEL -
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
BILLY JOEL -
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
BILLY JOEL -
I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOEL -
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
BILLY JOEL -
Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
BILLY JOEL -
I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
BILLY JOEL -
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
BILLY JOEL