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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
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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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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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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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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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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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Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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 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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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 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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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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