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I've never been not fit or not healthy.

Quote by Billy Joel

If it hadn't been for some disastrous things happening in Europe, I wouldn't be here to tell the tale.

Quote by Billy Joel about things, fairy tales

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.

Quote by Billy Joel about people, feelings, humanity, contentment, music, need, human imperfections, things

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

Quote by Billy Joel about contentment

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.

Quote by Billy Joel about being

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Quote by Billy Joel about affair, age, olderness

In my business, it's sort of like getting your teeth cleaned. New York has a pub on every corner and at the end of the day, everybody ends up at the pub.

Quote by Billy Joel about end, affair, day

It feels great to have a #1 album.

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It was one of the greatest days of my fife, just to be able to make a living as a musician alone, to earn money doing what I loved to do.

Quote by Billy Joel about day, money

It's not just for the money. If it was, then I would stay out on the road and do long tours. This is kind of just to keep my hand in.

Quote by Billy Joel about money

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

Quote by Billy Joel about impossible

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Quote by Billy Joel about family, good, good luck

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Quote by Billy Joel about literature, music, art, magic

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

Quote by Billy Joel about food, music, being, people

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

Quote by Billy Joel about being

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Quote by Billy Joel about quiet, voice

My dad's family was from Nuremberg, and his father had a mail order textile business. He was in Germany when it was getting pretty lousy and he was forced to sell his business to some Nazi.

Quote by Billy Joel about affair, commerce, family, order

My parents moved from Europe, first to Cuba for three years and then to America, where my dad joined the Army.

Quote by Billy Joel about army, parents

My songs are like my kids.

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Pretty much everyone's family was either chased out or ran away from some sort of horrible situation in the old country and made something of themselves in America.

Quote by Billy Joel about family, country, old, olderness