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I don't know why I go to extremes.

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 should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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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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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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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 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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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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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