You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
Billy JoelRead
No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.
Interpretation
Music is a universal language that transcends cultural boundaries.
The quote highlights the idea that music serves as a common ground for people across different cultures. Regardless of one's background, music has the power to evoke emotions, create connections, and foster a sense of belonging among individuals, making it a fundamental aspect of human experience.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about cultural diversity at a music festival.
You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... 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. ... My songs are like my kids.
Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.
I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.