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Billy Joel - From the Artists category:
Artists - 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. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Artists category:
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Competence category:
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Complaining category:
Go on and cry in your coffee, / but don't come bitching to me. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Criticism category:
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Drunkenness category:
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Fun category:
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Health category:
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Humanity category:
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Intimacy category:
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Journey category:
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Life category:
The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Love category:
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Magic category:
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)
Billy Joel - From the Mistakes category:
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Money category:
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Music category:
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Music category:
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Originality category:
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Production category:
My songs are like my kids. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Profession category:
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Recognition category:
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Rejection category:
I really wish I was less of a thinking man, and more a fool who's not afraid of rejection. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Risk category:
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Truth category:
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel - From the Writing category:
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. (Billy Joel)
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