If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
BILLY JOELEven when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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