In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOELRock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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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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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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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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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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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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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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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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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