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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

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
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in '93.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
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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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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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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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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When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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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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