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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
Billy Joel
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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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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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I actually wrote the song first as well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday. That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
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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'm in a New York state of mind
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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong
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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 can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
Billy Joel
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
Billy Joel
I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
Billy Joel
Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
Billy Joel
You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
Billy Joel
She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
Billy Joel
