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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.

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
Wasting
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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I'm single but interviewing.
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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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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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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