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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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William M. Joel
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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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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
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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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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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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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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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All she wanted was sax.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
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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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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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Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'
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