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All she wanted was sax.
Billy Joel
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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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Musician
Pianist
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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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There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.
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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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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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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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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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