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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

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 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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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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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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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I'm in a New York state of mind
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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