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.
BILLY JOELI see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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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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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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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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 hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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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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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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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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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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