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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.

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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I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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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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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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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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