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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel
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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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All she wanted was sax.
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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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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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