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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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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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There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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