American - Musician | May 9, 1949 -
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
Billy Joel
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Artists - 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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There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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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.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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