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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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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.
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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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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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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, Listen to me. Now it says, Look at me.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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Advice is cheap you can take it from me.
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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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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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