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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
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
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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 have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real
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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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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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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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If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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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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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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