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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
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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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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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
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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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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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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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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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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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