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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.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
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William M. Joel
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When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, Listen to me. Now it says, Look at me.
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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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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 see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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All she wanted was sax.
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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