Quote by Billy Joel
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, th

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. – Billy Joel

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Ive come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, its a Greek tragedy. – Billy Joel

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Im probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 – to meet women. – Billy Joel

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

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I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. – Willie Nelson

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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John

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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I dont set out to say anything very important. – Brian Eno

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Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. – Helmut Walcha

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