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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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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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When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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