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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
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William M. Joel
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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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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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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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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
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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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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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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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