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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.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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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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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of 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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20 I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs.
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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'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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