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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Billy Joel

You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOEL

Beer Relationship Yoga
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

Age Birthday Insecurity
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
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
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Giving Heart Work
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
BILLY JOEL

Advice Answers Waiting
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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Angel Come Future Miracle War World
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Education Graduate School Self Teacher
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOEL

Art Rock Roll War
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
BILLY JOEL

Beats Hate Only
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOEL

Art Honesty Kidding Part Truth
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’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
BILLY JOEL

Ambition Dream Passion
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.
BILLY JOEL

Crazy Mind People

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