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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
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William M. Joel
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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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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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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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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I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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