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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.
Billy Joel
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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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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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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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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 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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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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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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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.
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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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It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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