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Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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I've crashed my car three times.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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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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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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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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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 believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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