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" My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. "
Neil Young
Music
Me
Jazz
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" As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. "
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" It's cool to go places where working people are happy. "
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