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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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You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise...
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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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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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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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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All she wanted was sax.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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I'm in a New York state of mind
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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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Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real
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