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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

Billy Joel

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Billy Joel
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 9
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
New York City
New York
William Martin Joel
William Martin Billy Joel
BJ
William M. Joel
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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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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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