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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
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Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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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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