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We're on the verge of all things new.

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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
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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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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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