Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
BILLY JOELShe can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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