When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
BILLY JOELShe can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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My songs are like my kids.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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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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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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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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