#he

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. ↗

— Billy Joel

#expression #feelings #human #human needs #humanity

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #bunch #fun #great #magicians

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are. ↗

— Billy Joel

#about #because #being #chose #doubts

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. ↗

— Billy Joel

#i #mistakes #only #original #theory

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from. ↗

— Billy Joel

#came #going #i #know #more

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. ↗

— Billy Joel

#loud #many #musicians #quiet #voice

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? ↗

— Roland Joffe

#einstein #history #in the past #knows #looks

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#confidence #developed #eventually #invited #me

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! ↗

— Roland Joffe

#always #asked #because #cannot #conversation

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#audiences #cinema #i #just #know