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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

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
In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
BILLY JOEL

Evil Home Open Phones Window
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
You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
BILLY JOEL

Made Mistake Reality
She’s got a smile that heals me.
BILLY JOEL

Compliment Heal Smile
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
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
BILLY JOEL

Honesty Insanity Lonely
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOEL

Art Literature Music
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
BILLY JOEL

Human Music Need Same Things
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOEL

Enrich Expressions Kids Songs
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
BILLY JOEL

Although Needs Romantic Tonight Want
Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
BILLY JOEL

Changing Friendship Please Song
She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
BILLY JOEL

Compliment Eye Smile
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.
BILLY JOEL

Artist Perception Sea

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.

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