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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.

Billy Joel

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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
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
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Shades
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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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Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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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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I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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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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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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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 see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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