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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
Insanity
Extremes

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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
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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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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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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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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in '93.
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I'm single but interviewing.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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Advice is cheap you can take it from me.
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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 may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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