Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
BILLY JOELI sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Artist – 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.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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Only the good die young.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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