Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOELArtist – 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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’m in a New York state of mind
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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