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My songs are like my kids.

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
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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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 hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
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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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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20 I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs.
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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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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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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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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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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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