Billy Joel Quotes
People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.
Quotes to Explore
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.
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The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.
