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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. "

Robert Wyatt

Mother

Focus

Voice

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Live

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Enough

Friends

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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. "

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Work

Group

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Nature

Solitary

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Done

Going

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Youth

Fashion

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