Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOELRemember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOELHonesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
BILLY JOELWe all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
BILLY JOELHot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
BILLY JOELI don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
BILLY JOELI 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 JOELOut of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
BILLY JOELTwyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
BILLY JOELBut I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
BILLY JOELI had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
BILLY JOELYou should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
BILLY JOELI have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
BILLY JOELForced 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 JOELRock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOELMore than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOELI’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
BILLY JOEL