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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.

Billy Joel

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL

Heart Loud Musician Voices
People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOEL

Feel Good Night People
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
BILLY JOEL

Creative Outlets Records
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
BILLY JOEL

Parent Piano Play Years
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Soul
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOEL

Drink Expression Loneliness
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
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
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
There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Men
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
BILLY JOEL

Antiques May Stones
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
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
BILLY JOEL

Call Fool Moments
I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
BILLY JOEL

Men Not Spiritual Sure
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
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Imagination Mind

Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.

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