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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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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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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 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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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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Advice is cheap you can take it from me.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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