Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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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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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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