They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOELThey are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOELYou just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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 JOELYou’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
BILLY JOELWhen I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
BILLY JOELI took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELWe drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
BILLY JOELSlow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELI don’t know why I go to extremes.
BILLY JOELThey say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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 JOELIt’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
BILLY JOELI never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
BILLY JOELYou’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOELI’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
BILLY JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOEL