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 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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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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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.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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