Billy Joel
Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joelis an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States. His compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 is one of the best-selling albums in the US...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth9 May 1949
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
I 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.
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be
So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
I'm in a New York state of mind
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?