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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

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
Cathedrals
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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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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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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There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, Listen to me. Now it says, Look at me.
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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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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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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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.
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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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All she wanted was sax.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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