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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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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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I've crashed my car three times.
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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 am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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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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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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