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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

Billy Joel

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
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
BILLY JOEL

Celebrity Disneyland Peter
I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Active Issues Mind Writing
I’m single but interviewing.
BILLY JOEL

Interviewing Person Single
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Eye Sadness
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

Mistakes Originals Theory
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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Alchemist Fun Wizards
Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
BILLY JOEL

Back Becomes Coming Seemed
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Pursue Young
I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Age Fighting Noble
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Fall Mighty Skylines Watched
Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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Music Player Thinking
I’m in a New York state of mind
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Country Mind States
But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Help Point Promised Something Try
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.
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History Loved Music Musicologist Something

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