You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
BILLY JOELArtist – 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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.
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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 want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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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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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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