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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 Martin Joel
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William M. Joel
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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of 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'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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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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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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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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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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in '93.
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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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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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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
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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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There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
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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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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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