"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."

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Source : FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jan 28, 2014

Billy Joel

#Artist Quotes #Sea Quotes #Perception Quotes

“Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.”
“My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.”
“The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.”
“If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.”
“As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.”
“Lying is a thriving Vocation.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The life of the author. Perjur'd husband. Beaux's duel. Gamester. Basset table. Love at a venture. Stolen heiress”, p.159
“It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.”
“I can't put into words what I think about anything.”

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