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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 Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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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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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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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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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.
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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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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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