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
There's an old man sitting next to meMaking love to his tonic and gin.
Some people sleep all alone every nightInstead of taking a lover to bedSome people find that it's easier to hateThan to wait anymore.
I promised I would never leave youAnd you should always knowWherever you may goNo matter where you areI never will be far away
I promised I would never leave you And you should always know Wherever you may go No matter where you are I never will be far away
...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
I ride my own motorcycles, People are like, 'God, the guy is bad enough on cars!' Actually I have a better track record on bikes than I do with cars.
You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don't have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.
Who was wrong? Who was right?It didn't matter in the thick of the fight...
We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams.We're all carried along by the River of Dreams.
We all have a face that we hide away forever,And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather.They're the faces of the stranger and we love to try them on.