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But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.


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BILLY JOEL The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN