Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOELWhen I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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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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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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