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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

#different #drummers #experience #high #high wire

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #believe #born #express #gift

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#competent #consider #extraordinary #i #i do

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. ↗

— Billy Joel

#ban #banned #did #die #good

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ↗

— Billy Joel

#expression #feelings #human #human needs #humanity

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are. ↗

— Billy Joel

#about #because #being #chose #doubts

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #demand #exports #finally #huge

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#consciousness #exciting #feeling #fun #get

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#beef #egypt #excited #had #lebanon

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next. ↗

— David Johansen

#next #see #them #things #try