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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
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 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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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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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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