Billy Joel Quotes
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I was prepared to stay at Fox through the end of my contract, ... Everything I have done has been totally consistent with my contractual obligations to Fox.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn't exist that you're going to create on a Thursday that's going to change somebody's life, possibly, you're creating that from nothing.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.
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Well so, here I am at the end of the road Where do I go from here?
