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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

Billy Joel

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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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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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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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