Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
BILLY JOELNobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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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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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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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.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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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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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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