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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.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
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William M. Joel
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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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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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