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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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
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William M. Joel
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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 never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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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 played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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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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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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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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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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