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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
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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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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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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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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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 believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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All she wanted was sax.
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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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