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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
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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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
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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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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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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'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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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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