Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
From Billy Joel
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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.
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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.
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
When I was 19, I made my first good week's 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.
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