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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

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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
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William M. Joel
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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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There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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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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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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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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We're on the verge of all things new.
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All she wanted was sax.
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