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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, Listen to me. Now it says, Look at me.
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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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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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