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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.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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