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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in '93.
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