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Quote by Billy Joel
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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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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Experience
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music. – Billy Joel

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Food
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In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I havent listened to in years. – Susan Orlean

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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Music

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, theres always a new generation with new music. – Bobby Vinton

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Music

Metal is still the biggest music now in America. – Sebastian Bach

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Music

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I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then its fine. – Matthew Macfadyen

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. – Woodrow Wilson

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