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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

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
BILLY JOEL

Alchemist Fun Wizards
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Musician Safety Wire
I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Extremes Insanity Knows
every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Life Relationship Rose
Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Vienna Waiting
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
Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Back Music Romance Together
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?
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Careers Materials Together
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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Men Rejection Thinking
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Country Education Helped People Wall
I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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Music Probably Reason Started Writing
You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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Hard Old Rock Roll
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Love Wasted Time
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Artist Perception Sea
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
BILLY JOEL

Country Mass Problems Thinking
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Human Music Need Same Things

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.

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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.

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