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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."

"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

"It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest."

"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Explore more quotes by Billy Joel

"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."

"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."

"Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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