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Advice is cheap you can take it from me.

Billy Joel

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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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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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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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It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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All she wanted was sax.
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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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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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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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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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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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