Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOELMusicians 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’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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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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