Billy Joel Quotes

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Greatest

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Answer

• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Game

• When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Eating

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• I remember staying up all night waiting to see the first screening of Cape Fear because you knew that every time Robert DeNiro had a performance it was going to be revelatory. Then DeNiro hit this place, he seemed like he was done with the emotional cost of impaling himself like that, and he dedicated himself to comedy.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Comedy
  • Performance
  • I Remember

• Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

  

  John Milton
  • Truth

• Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Art
  • May
  • Spiritual

• As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying to find out who the voices of our time are. I attend a spectrum of concerts that are close to classical - anything from Wynton Marsalis to Renee Fleming.

  

  Jan Vogler
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Real
  • Art
  • Simplicity

• More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Literature