Billy Joel Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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There's no way I can run a nonpartisan organization the same time I am running for Congress.
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
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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.
