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They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun.

Quote by Billy Joel about saints

This is a real job - as real as a doctor, a teacher, or a scientist-and just as important as and very similar to healing, teaching and inventing.

Quote by Billy Joel about teaching, real estate, teachers

This is a sissy tour. This is four weeks. This isn't even a rehearsal; by the time we get good we're going to have to stop. This is like a Madonna tour.

Quote by Billy Joel about good, good luck, time

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

Quote by Billy Joel about ability, being, contentment, life

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?

Quote by Billy Joel about purpose, career, thinking, good, good luck

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.

Quote by Billy Joel about americans, music, being, time

We experience difficulties, weakness, failures and sadness, but we also celebrate joys and successes - these are the things we express in music.

Quote by Billy Joel about difficulties, sadness, weakness, experience, music, things

We know what it is like to be completely alone, to be unemployed, to have to struggle.

Quote by Billy Joel about fight

We're all corporations and contractors and production companies now.

Quote by Billy Joel about companies

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about books, teachers

Women need a reason to have sex Men just need a place.

Quote by Billy Crystal about sex, need, reason, man

I plan on doing at least one classic ever year. That's why I'm going to be doing Enemy of the People this summer in Williamstown.

Quote by Mandy Patinkin about enemies, people

I don't think Elvis was able, really, to perform a lot of times when he did. I worried about that, same way I did with Hank Williams, Sr.

Quote by Minnie Pearl about opinion