Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
BILLY JOELIn 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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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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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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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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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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