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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel
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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
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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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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, Listen to me. Now it says, Look at me.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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