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Billy Joel

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

Age Birthday Insecurity
You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOEL

Enrich Expressions Kids Songs
Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
BILLY JOEL

Changing Friendship Please Song
Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOEL

Anyway One Songs
you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
BILLY JOEL

Crazy May might
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Islands Men Sea
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Butter Peanut Sex Witty
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.
BILLY JOEL

Book Country Kids
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOEL

Blac Color Philosophy White
I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOEL

Mets Thinking Type
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Consistency Craftmanship Long Piano
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
BILLY JOEL

Education Endless Same Years
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
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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Evil May Understanding
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL

Men Rejection Thinking
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOEL

Kids Like Song
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
BILLY JOEL

Home Phones Waiting
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOEL

Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
BILLY JOEL

Moments Past Relentless
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Antiques May Stones
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Old Share Told Truth
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Drink Expression Loneliness
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Kindness People Reality
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
BILLY JOEL

Away Going Houston Kids
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

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