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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
BJ
William M. Joel
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.
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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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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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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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Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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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 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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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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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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking Uptown Girl! I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called Ragdoll, which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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