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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More quotes by Billy Joel
- I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
- In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
- As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
- More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
- In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.