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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

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
I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOEL

Booze Couple Hard Nothing Times
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
BILLY JOEL

Butter Peanut Sex Witty
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
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
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
BILLY JOEL

Insanity Talking Winos
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
BILLY JOEL

Food Junk People Sold
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
BILLY JOEL

House Jerry Sold
Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOEL

Empathy People Thinking
I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
BILLY JOEL

Life Looking Philosophy
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
BILLY JOEL

Islands Men Sea
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
BILLY JOEL

Life Other Stories Story
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
BILLY JOEL

Kids Pianist Song Songwriter Writing
I watched the mighty skyline fall
BILLY JOEL

Fall Mighty Skylines Watched
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
BILLY JOEL

Madness Philosophy Reality Sadness

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.

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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.

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