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Billy Squier Quotes
Billy Squier Quotes
Billy Squier
American
Musician
Born:
May 12
,
1950
Me
Music
People
Think
Try
You
My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.
Billy Squier
Music
Heavy Metal
Emotions
Feelings
Has-Been
Rather
Call
Because
Metal
Rock
Been
Articulate
Accurate
Heavy
Many
Description
Expresses
It would be easier to be more mysterious, but I try to be accessible.
Billy Squier
Try
Easier
Would
Would-Be
More
Mysterious
Accessible
Life isn't that complicated on paper. It's made more complex by the day and age we live.
Billy Squier
Life
Day
Age
Complicated
Made
Live
Paper
Complex
More
Day And Age
I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs.
Billy Squier
Statements
Prophetic
Songs
Make
Grandiose
Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.
Billy Squier
Me
Top
Top Ten
Ten
Becoming
Surprised
Artist
I think that 'Tell the Truth' is one of the best rock records ever made by me or anyone - I really do.
Billy Squier
Truth
Best
Me
Truth Is
Made
Think
I Think
Tell
Records
Rock
Anyone
Really
Ever
I'm not gonna get it all right, but I take my victories, as small as they are.
Billy Squier
Small
Take
Get
Victories
Gonna
Right
I can put on 'Revolver' or 'Led Zeppelin II' and then 'Tell the Truth' and there is no quality gap.
Billy Squier
Truth
Quality
I Can
Tell
Put
Led
Led Zeppelin
Revolver
Then
Gap
Zeppelin
I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.
Billy Squier
Music
Church
Hymns
Liked
Sing
Because
Always
Go
Loved
Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes on in the business world.
Billy Squier
Me
Business
People
Song
World
Saw
Plenty
Stroke
Sexual
About
Take
Instance
Goes
Business World
Connotations
We do things instinctively and not necessarily rationally. It's almost like we're being controlled by unseen forces, which is something I don't like. I've been making a real effort to try to find out what those forces are and get them out of my life.
Billy Squier
Life
Try
My Life
Those
Out
Find
Something
Rationally
Unseen
Almost
Instinctively
Like
Forces
Making
Real
Been
Effort
Get
Controlled
Being
Which
Them
Things
Necessarily
For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.
Billy Squier
Music
Myself
Me
Try
More
Pursuit
Generally
Road
Just
Just One
Aware
Specific
I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.
Billy Squier
Personality
Try
Somebody
Year
Changes
David
David Bowie
Never
Like
Bowie
Different
Anything
Create
Who
Each
Each Year
When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.
Billy Squier
Jimi Hendrix
Clapton
Diverse
Had
Beck
Eric
Eric Clapton
Up
Influences
Grew
Richards
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Hendrix
Keith Richards
I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.
Billy Squier
Tend
Deal
Very
Manner
Serious
Things
So everybody is trying to play like Eddie Van Halen. I think it's rubbish. I think Eddie's great, but everyone's trying to do what he does and it doesn't make for a lot of interesting music.
Billy Squier
Music
Great
Think
Rubbish
Everybody
Everyone
I Think
Van
Van Halen
He
Like
Halen
Eddie
Make
Does
Lot
Trying
Interesting
Play
There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.
Billy Squier
Music
Quality
People
Raw
Expect
Basic
I do keep my eyes and ears open but I don't spend a lot of time looking at what other people are doing to see how I can fit in.
Billy Squier
Time
Eyes
People
Looking
Other
Spend
Ears
I Can
See
Open
How
Doing
Lot
Fit
Keep
Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the fashionable thing to do.
Billy Squier
Music
Before
Industry
Became
Just
Want
Anything
Fashionable
Thing
I'm basically a nice guy.
Billy Squier
Nice
Guy
Nice Guy
Basically
I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.
Billy Squier
Way
Significant
One-Way
Know
Looks
Terribly
Another
Being
Anyone
Themselves
Necessarily
Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.
Billy Squier
Time
Good
Good Time
Become
Think
Introspective
About
Having
More
Having A Good Time
Tend
Reflective
Much
I just started exploring the guitar and seeing where it would take me.
Billy Squier
Me
Guitar
Would
Seeing
Take
Just
Where
Exploring
Started
I was always regarded as being better than ninety percent of the kids in school, but I was also something of a loner.
Billy Squier
Better
School
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Kids
Loner
Percent
Something
Also
Always
Than
Being
Regarded
When I write the songs, I don't dictate how people should interpret them.
Billy Squier
People
I Write
Write
Songs
How
Dictate
Them
Should
Interpret
I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.
Billy Squier
Love
Music
Would
Fact
Never
Greatest
Dispute
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