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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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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