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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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William M. Joel
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking Uptown Girl! I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called Ragdoll, which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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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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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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I'm in a New York state of mind
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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