People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOELForced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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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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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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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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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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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