there s an element of alchemy in making music. almost a sorcery or a magic that, i don t necessarily understand, but i know that it moves me. i seen the lights go out on broadway i saw the empire state laid low and life went on beyond the palisades they all bought cadillacs and left there long ago to tell the world about the way the lights went out and keep the memory alive it s all these human emotions. for some reason, we can tap into that, musicians. when we came up with this idea of doing a series of in-depth interviews with really extraordinary people, we started thinking about whom we should try to get, and whom we should ask. and we thought about the usual political figures, obama, the dalai lama. and i kept coming back to the idea, of interviewing the person i really wanted to interview, and that was billy joel. and the reason is that i ve been in love with his music ever since i was a teenager growing up in india. billy joel has been a
broadway i saw the empire state lay low life went on beyond the palisades they all bought cadillacs left there long ago to tell the world about the way the light went out to keep the memory alive it s all these human emotions. for some reason we can tap into that as musicians. when we came up with this idea of doing this series of in-depth interviews with really extraordinary people we started thinking about whom we should try to get and whom we should ask. and we thought about the usual political figures, obama, the dali lama. and i come back to the idea of interviewing the person i really wanted to interview, and that was billy joel. and the reason is i ve been in love with his music ever since i was a teenager growing up in india. billy joel has been a rockstar for five decades. today he keeps up his nearly ten-yearlong residency at madison square garden playing the piano and belting out the lyrics that so many fans adore. he s sold more than 150 million reco
Juvenile. yes. in some ways, yes. when will you realize, vienna waits for you but it was also the age i was at. i was in my mid-20s, which is a, difficult time for a lot of people, because a lot of people think we have to have it all together before we hit 30. if we re not a success before we re 30, it s over. forget it, you re not going to make it. and there s all that pressure. and i saw that happening with my friends. and after having been in vienna and learning a lot about that culture, and europe as well, i said, will you slow down. take it easy. there s a reason for every time in your life, there s a season for it. so i don t know what made me the world s greatest philosopher, but i decided that to be the lyric. you don t talk about politics on stage and really not at all as far as i can tell. why? once in a blue moon i do, if
Well, slow down, take it easy. there s a reason for every time in your life there s a season for it. so i don t know what may be the world s greatest philosopher, but i decided that to be the lyric. you don t talk about politics on stage and really not at all as far as i can tell. why? once in a blue moon i do if something is really aggravating me. but i realize people pay a lot of money to go to concerts, and they didn t come to hear me talk about my political views. they came to hear the music. a lot of them came to escape from all of that. right. i m not a politician. and i m not a philosopher. i m just a piano player. don t forget that. don t lose sight of that. you re a piano player. and people don t want to hear your politics. even though something can be really on my mind and i m dying to say it, i try not to