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What an incredible opportunity for a new movement of American composers and musicians - to shape what we will be listening to in the years to come.

Quote by Billy Joel about chance, americans

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Quote by Billy Joel about common sense, sense, music, art, magic

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

Quote by Billy Joel about commerce, food, money, good, good luck

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

Quote by Billy Joel about education, music

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.

Quote by Billy Joel about creation, time, music

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

Quote by Billy Joel about hate, reason, money, people, contentment

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

Quote by Billy Joel about things, contentment

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Quote by Larry Hagman about heads

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Quote by Evan Parker about existence, interest, character, history, music

Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.

Quote by Simon Pegg about opinion, old, olderness, good, good luck

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education, children, bankers, police, being, school

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about parents, children

Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about parents, school, love

As every child knows, chemistry with nothing stronger than vinegar soon becomes dull.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about children, nothing

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about family, poverty

For example, I am not a good craftsman.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about example, good, good luck

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education, good, good luck, school, affair

However, Allied Printing brought the four of us into the middle class and kept us in the middle class thru the Depression of the 1930's.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about depression

I enrolled in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now Polytechnic University, and began studying chemical engineering.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education

I entered the physics doctoral program in Columbia University in the autumn of 1950.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about opinion, physics, autumn