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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

Billy Joel

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
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOEL

Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
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.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Safety Wire
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
BILLY JOEL

Antiques May Stones
Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
BILLY JOEL

Around Long Sit Song Writing
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
BILLY JOEL

Goodbye Inspirational Tomorrow
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOEL

Country Political Soldiers Trying
I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
BILLY JOEL

Not Philosophy Righteous Sure
There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
BILLY JOEL

Away Going Houston Kids
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

History Loved Music Musicologist Something
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
BILLY JOEL

Distance Much Resistance Too
I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
BILLY JOEL

Bring Care Fool Lesser
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
BILLY JOEL

Crazy Mind People
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

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