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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
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New York City
New York
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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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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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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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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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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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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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