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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody

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
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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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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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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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 am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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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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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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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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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.
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I actually wrote the song first as well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday. That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
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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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real
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