Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOELThis is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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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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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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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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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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