Chords for Billy Joel - Q&A: Do You Write Your Video Scripts? (Nuremberg 1995)

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_ _ _ [G] _ Okay, yeah _
_ _ _ _ _ I'll get to you.
Where are you say that again?
_ Okay, I'll get to you next.
Okay, you'll be next
First _ video I remember seeing of yours was uptown girl, and I guess I know where you got your inspiration for that
but my question is _ _
Do you write your own videos the scripts like River of Dreams or are they written for you?
Okay, good question _
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Don't really like to do videos
_ I'll tell you why well
For some some people videos are great, but music for me
transcends the physical musical
music transcends the visual
What I deal with is is this and this [A] this [Ab] _ [A] _ This
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But this is not so important
And you know I always wondered in the old days if if they had asked and not to compare myself to an old
You know composer from the old days, but if they said to Beethoven [N] that that that that okay video video
_ That that [G] that
Okay, we need a woman with a garter belt
_ And you have to come out and you will be going
_ _ _ _ _ Beethoven's fifth
He would have said you know no I won't do that
So I resent having to do them in the first place
So I don't really think I feel like when I've written a good piece of music that it's complete that it doesn't need
Visualization it doesn't need a movie
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But _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I think I also feel like that because I don't think I'm photogenic
[Ab] _ [G] When I'm in the studio, and I'm singing
_ _ I feel like I'm six foot five and I look like Cary Grant you know
_ _ _ And _ then I see this little fat guy you know in a [N] video _
And I said no no no
No, I I wasn't thinking like that no wrong wrong wrong
[G] _
_ So usually I depend on a director to write _
The video now at the time.
I was just beginning to date Christie Brinkley, and you know director is brilliant
Well, he's looking at me going _
We can't do much with him
_ And he looks at Christie, and he goes
_ Eureka, you know there's the video
_ so most of the time I I just
Let a director right now if sometimes that they asked me to do something that I'm not comfortable with I'll say no
I don't want to do that and
I'm making less and less videos
Because I'm becoming less and less photogenic
_ _ But it's you know in the old days.
They didn't call them videos.
They call them promotion clips and
I wanted to see what artists look like I remember in the 60s.
I wanted to see Jimi Hendrix
I wanted to see cream
Hey as a matter of fact I understand.
This is the last the [E] last rock and roll [G] concert.
They had here was Jimi Hendrix
This is true.
You know about this
Nobody knows that
_ Long time ago back in the well of course back in the 60s the last guy that was on the stage was Jimi
Hendrix for rock and roll I think that's pretty cool.
He's in here so I
Love Jimi Hendrix _ I
Bet you it was loud
It's supposed to be loud _ _ So
_ Yeah, I I don't get that involved with the video
I really don't because I don't think in those terms.
I think in terms of I don't like to tell a
Listener this is what you should see this is what you should think of music should be open to interpretation for anyone
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