I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
BILLY JOELI am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
BILLY JOELI really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOELSome people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
BILLY JOELHonesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
BILLY JOELYou’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
BILLY JOELAdvice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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 JOELevery time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOELStreetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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 JOELWhen I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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 JOELBlack and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOELI’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
BILLY JOELMore than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOELI guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
BILLY JOEL