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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!

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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New York City
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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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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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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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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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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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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.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I actually wrote the song first as well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday. That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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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 carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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