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
I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewhat foolish guy . . . So I tell them to try to hold on to the way they feel right now. Because that's going to effect them for the rest of their lives.
I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don't these people ever watch ""Behind the Music""? It's a cliche. If I had known that the story was going to be reported in the way that it was, I would have considered not going at all.
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.
I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after that is like water off a duck's back.
Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.
We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
Who was wrong? Who was right?It didn't matter in the thick of the fight...
We were sharp... as sharp as knives. And we were so gung-ho to lay down our lives...
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
We didn't start the fireBut when we are goneWill it still burn on and on and on...