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Writing Quotes by Billy Joel
- If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
- I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same…
- I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
- Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They…
- Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
- I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
- 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…
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