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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.

Billy Joel

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

Family Like Musician Tied
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
BILLY JOEL

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

Age Birthday Insecurity
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
I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
BILLY JOEL

Knows Play Said
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
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Imagination Mind
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOEL

Listen Rocks Roll Vitality
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOEL

Fine Slow Down Want
Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
BILLY JOEL

Art Honey Media Money
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL

Courage Fighting Title
Only the good die young.
BILLY JOEL

Dense Iron Maiden Young
In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
BILLY JOEL

Comes Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
BILLY JOEL

Beethoven Guys Phenomenal Productivity Some
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOEL

Art Rock Roll War

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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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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