I 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.
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.
BILLY JOELWhen I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
BILLY JOELYou should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
BILLY JOELI think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
BILLY JOELWhat if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOELI’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOELHope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
BILLY JOELArtist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
BILLY JOELMost of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOELThere are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
BILLY JOELSomeday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
BILLY JOELThere was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
BILLY JOELMore than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOELI’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
BILLY JOELYou just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
BILLY JOELThere’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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