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“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”
-- Billy Joel

#Heart #Voice #Musician
“I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.”
-- Billy Joel

#Guy #Pedestal #Want
“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

#Birthday #Song #Jobs
“I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.”
-- Billy Joel

#Song #Believe #Years
“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.”
-- Billy Joel

#Love #Life #Motivational
“Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.”
-- Billy Joel

#Creative #Records #Outlets
“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

#Music #Art #Journey
“Artist - 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

#Artist #Sea #Perception
“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

#Safety #Wire #Musician
“I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.”
-- Billy Joel

#Play #Piano #Years
“I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.”
-- Billy Joel

#Religious #Believe #Meditation
“Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do”
-- Billy Joel
“I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.”
-- Billy Joel

#Lovers #Fighter
“I said I love you and that's forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.”
-- Billy Joel

#Friendship #Anniversary #Love You
“There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.”
-- Billy Joel

#Witty #Sex #Peanut Butter
“I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.”
-- Billy Joel

#Song #Fun #Laughing
“I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.”
-- Billy Joel

#Friendship #Advice #Peter
“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

#Believe #People #Able
“You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.”
-- Billy Joel

#Rocks
“Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.”
-- Billy Joel

#Thinking #Musician #Irs
“I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.”
-- Billy Joel

#Mean #Singers #Opinion
“More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.”
-- Billy Joel

#Art #Literature #Music Is
“Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.”
-- Billy Joel

#People #Junk #Junk Food
“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

#Art #Portraits #Looks
“Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems”
-- Billy Joel

#Goodbye #Tomorrow #Oldies
“Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.”
-- Billy Joel

#Waiting #Advice #Answers
“Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.”
-- Billy Joel

#Musician
“Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...”
-- Billy Joel

#Lonely #Honesty #Insane
“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
-- Billy Joel

#Birthday #Insecurity #Age
“Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.”
-- Billy Joel

#Doors #Opening Up #People

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