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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.

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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
BJ
William M. Joel
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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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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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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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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I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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