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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.

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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Advice is cheap you can take it from me.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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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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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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