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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.

Billy Joel

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
You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
BILLY JOEL

Girl Shame Walk
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
BILLY JOEL

Definitely Fighter Lovers
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
I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
BILLY JOEL

Civil Dominate Politics Servant
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
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
BILLY JOEL

Mind Song Speak Time
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
BILLY JOEL

Demand Music Successful
We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
BILLY JOEL

Forever Gone Insanity
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
BILLY JOEL

Careers Materials Together
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
In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOEL

Birthday Business Jobs Crazy Song
You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
BILLY JOEL

Hard Mistakes Reputation Times
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
BILLY JOEL

Art Created Looks Portraits
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.
BILLY JOEL

Help Point Promised Something Try
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’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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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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