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Billy Joel

"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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Donna Grant

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Donna Grant

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

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Donna Grant

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

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Donna Grant

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

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Donna Grant

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

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

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Billy Joel
"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"

Music

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Billy Joel
"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."

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Billy Joel
"I'm a history nut."

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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
"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."

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Billy Joel
"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."

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Billy Joel
"I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes."

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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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