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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.
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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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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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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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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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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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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
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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 have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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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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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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