Billy Joel Quotes

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Billy Joel

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 9, 1949

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.

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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

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The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

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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.

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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.

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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

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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.

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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

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

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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

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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.

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There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

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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.

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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

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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.

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I've crashed my car three times.

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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.

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