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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel
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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
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I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20 I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs.
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My songs are like my kids.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in '93.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking Uptown Girl! I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called Ragdoll, which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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