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All Billy Joel Quotes
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
Billy Joel
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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
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Billy Joel
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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
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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.
Billy Joel
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel
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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
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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.
Billy Joel
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
Billy Joel
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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
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
Billy Joel
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
Billy Joel
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