Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOELLawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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