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.
BILLY JOELCall me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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