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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
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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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong
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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 never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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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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Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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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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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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