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Billy Joel

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 Opinion Singers
Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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Allowed Mistakes Sometimes Takes
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Believe Lying People
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Art Rock Roll War
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Art Literature Music
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Life Love Motivational
Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Around Long Sit Song Writing
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Cutting Evil Laughing
Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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Inspiration Tangible Unseen
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

Age Birthday Insecurity
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
BILLY JOEL

Causes Giving Musician
I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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Music Probably Reason Started Writing
Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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Discounts Giving Reality
I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Extremes Insanity Knows
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Believe Clouds Important
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Given Needs Relationship
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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Book Country Kids
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Advice Answers Waiting
…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Good Inspirational Love Morning
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Family Men Mint
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Goes Gone Someday
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.
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Results Style Success Weakness
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Alcohol Drug Soul
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

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

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