When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOELWhen I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOELI consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
BILLY JOELyou may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
BILLY JOELYou’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
BILLY JOELVideos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOELI’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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 JOELWhat if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOELPeople pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOELMost people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
BILLY JOELIf you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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 JOELThey say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
BILLY JOELIn every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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 JOEL