Quote by Billy Joel
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most

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. – Billy Joel

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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. – Billy Joel

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

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Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, theres no fitting into it now. – Bob Dylan

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