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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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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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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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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
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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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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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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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