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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.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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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 never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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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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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise...
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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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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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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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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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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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