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
my dearest martha, wow. today we fought at gettysburg. it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and so beautiful in so many ways. but all worth it to protect every person, woman, man, camera, and future tv. for as it says in the declaration of independence, all men are endowed with certain rights that are unaddlinable, unbabble, forget it. i m dead. oh, my, pretty good. the original, though, how can you top the original? donald trump s speech, wow. i don t know. it was so interesting. so wow. who says that? it was so much. so much. then he i go to watch. i don t know what to say about it. i go there to watch. wow. so much. what s going through his mind? not much. but president biden is incognitive decline. i mean, the argument is the president can t talk his way out of a paper bag. watch any donald trump rally. yeah, there s just no there s no comparison on any of these fronts. he s just rambling. i mean, i guess, i guess, jo
Beethoven, it would be there s always an edge of anxiety and unfulfillment and anger and passion. is that why you like him more than mozart? i think beethoven is one of the most human of composers, because, he wrote in fits and starts. mozart is like, perfect. right. he s like angel, like he came down from heaven and everything he writes is perfect, effortless. he just kind of glides along and plays exactly what should be played. beethoven, i had a copy of, the ninth symphony, the actual notation. and you see these huge pages scratched out, gouged out like he never wanted anybody to see the lousy stuff he wrote. and i m looking at this and i m going, wow, he wrote, you know,
Talking she ll say that she s mine but it s from the classical period. and there s a couple of songs like that. for the longest time. it s very classic. could you mimic beethoven? if i was going to mimic beethoven it would be there s always an edge of anxiety and unfulfillment and anger and passion. is that why you like him more