You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
BILLY JOELYou get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
BILLY JOELThere’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
BILLY JOELI am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOELThere was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
BILLY JOELAs an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOELAdvice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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 JOELAnd the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
BILLY JOELSergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
BILLY JOELBlack and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOELI think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
BILLY JOELI’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
BILLY JOELSome people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
BILLY JOELVideos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOELAs human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
BILLY JOELYou’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
BILLY JOEL