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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.

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
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William M. Joel
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Insanity

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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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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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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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, Listen to me. Now it says, Look at me.
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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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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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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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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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