You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOEL
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOEL -
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOEL -
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
BILLY JOEL -
Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
BILLY JOEL -
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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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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You’re so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you’re wrong
BILLY JOEL -
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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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOEL