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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I s

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. – Billy Joel

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In an age of incompetence, Ive been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. Thats my job. – Billy Joel

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Age
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When I was 19, I made my first good weeks 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. – Billy Joel

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Food
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I think music in itself is healing. Its an explosive expression of humanity. Its something we are all touched by. No matter what culture were from, everyone loves music. – Billy Joel

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Music
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Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. – Brian Eno

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Music

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. – Beth Ditto

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Music

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music. – Billy Corgan

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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. – Samuel Butler

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Music

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My father prayed because he had a good Friend with whom to share the problems of the day. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

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To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painters imagination. – Frank Auerbach

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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well. – Victoria Justice

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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May 43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in 42 – even in my position. This aircraft didnt have any priority in design or production. – Adolf Galland

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design