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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.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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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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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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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
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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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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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