If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
BILLY JOELIn 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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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I’m single but interviewing.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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