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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
Culture
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise...
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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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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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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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
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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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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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I'm single but interviewing.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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