"Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's influenced me, but I think I've also developed my own sound. He's also been really good about giving me advice, which I think has helped me really stay true to what I want to do musically."

-- Alexa Ray Joel

#Thinking Quotes #Piano Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”
“This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
“Women are the twin halves of men.”
“Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.”
“Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.”

Source : Interview with Matt Mitrovich, amazingstoriesmag.com. March 24, 2015.
“I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.”
“I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.”
“I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's obviously a certain amount of internal thinking that goes on in a novel (that) you can't do...in a screenplay. But I think, pacing wise, my novels move quickly because (they aren't overly) descriptive.”

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