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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
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William M. Joel
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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I've crashed my car three times.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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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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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking Uptown Girl! I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called Ragdoll, which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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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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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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