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" In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. "
Robert Wyatt
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" When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. "
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