In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
BILLY JOELIn a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
BILLY JOELI have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOELI remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
BILLY JOELThere will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
BILLY JOELIt took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
BILLY JOELDon’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
BILLY JOELIf you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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 JOELHistorically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
BILLY JOELI’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
BILLY JOELSlow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
BILLY JOELDavey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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 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 JOELWhy 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 JOELI am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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