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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
William Martin Joel
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William M. Joel
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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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 started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20 I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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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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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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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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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Advice is cheap you can take it from me.
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