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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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William M. Joel
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.
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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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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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Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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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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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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