Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
BILLY JOELHave you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
BILLY JOELIn hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
BILLY JOELAs an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOELThere was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
BILLY JOELDon’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
BILLY JOELI consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
BILLY JOELMusicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
BILLY JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOELWe all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
BILLY JOELSlow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELI took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELWell we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
BILLY JOELGive us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
BILLY JOELYes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
BILLY JOELI may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
BILLY JOELI’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOEL