Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOELSomeday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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 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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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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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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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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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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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