Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
BILLY JOELDon’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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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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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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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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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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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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