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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
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New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
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William M. Joel
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
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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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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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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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