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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
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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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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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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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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