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

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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
Intelligence
Technology
Culture
Experience
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Cosmopolitan
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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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 could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody
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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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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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