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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

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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
BJ
William M. Joel
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Civilized
Intelligence
Technology
Culture
Experience
Sophisticate
Cosmopolitan
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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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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I'm single but interviewing.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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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 consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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