Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOELYou get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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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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 see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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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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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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