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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

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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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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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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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
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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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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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