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Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
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William M. Joel
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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I'm in a New York state of mind
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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