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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.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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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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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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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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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.
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And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
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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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