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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
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 don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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