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Billy Joel

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"I've been drinking and using since I was 13."

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Donna Grant

"It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy."

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Donna Grant

"I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty."

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Donna Grant

"The piano has been drinking, not me."

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Donna Grant

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."

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Donna Grant

"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off."

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Donna Grant

"I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan."

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Donna Grant

"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."

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Donna Grant

"The whole world is about three drinks behind."

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Donna Grant

"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"

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Billy Joel
"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."

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

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Billy Joel
"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."

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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."

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Billy Joel
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."

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Billy Joel
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

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Billy Joel
"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."

Music

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Billy Joel
"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."

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Billy Joel
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

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Billy Joel
"Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself."

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