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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
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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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 believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I actually wrote the song first as well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday. That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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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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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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