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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise...
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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All she wanted was sax.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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