Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
BILLY JOELWe all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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