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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Billy Joel

You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
BILLY JOEL

Ambition Dream Passion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
BILLY JOEL

Arabia Country Lawrence Place
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOEL

Country Education Helped People Wall
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Pursue Young
As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOEL

Atheists Evil Fear Problem Realize
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Ocean Rivers
I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL

Country Musical Tragedy
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
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
BILLY JOEL

Humorous Men People
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
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
BILLY JOEL

Definitely Fighter Lovers
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
BILLY JOEL

Education Graduate School Self Teacher
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOEL

Art Honesty Kidding Part Truth
My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
BILLY JOEL

Being Crazy Sane
When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOEL

Club Jobs Musician
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL

Courage Fighting Title

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