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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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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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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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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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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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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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