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
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
- We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
- 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.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- 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.
- 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.
- The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
- Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
- Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
- The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
- Trust, but verify.
- The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
- Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.