Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
Quote by Billy Joel
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Billy Joel Quotes
- Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
- Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
- In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
- I've crashed my car three times.
- I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
- If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
- For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
- When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
- When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
- Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Best Quotes
- I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.
- It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
- The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
- War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
- I think a good relationship is about collaboration.
- Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.