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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.

Billy Joel

I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
BILLY JOEL

Cheer Limos People
I’m single but interviewing.
BILLY JOEL

Interviewing Person Single
Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
BILLY JOEL

Results Style Success Weakness
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
BILLY JOEL

History Loved Music Musicologist Something
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
BILLY JOEL

Home Phones Waiting
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 Created Looks Portraits
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

Alchemist Fun Wizards
I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
BILLY JOEL

Not Philosophy Righteous Sure
every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOEL

Life Relationship Rose
I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
BILLY JOEL

Matter Right Views Wrong
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
BILLY JOEL

Parent Piano Play Years
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
BILLY JOEL

Fun Laughing Song
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
BILLY JOEL

Country Mass Problems Thinking
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

Musician Safety Wire
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOEL

Blood Hot Writing

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