Artist – 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.
BILLY JOELYou can’t go the distance with too much resistance
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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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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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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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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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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