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I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

Amos Lee

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Amos Lee
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 22
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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I wasn't a very good teacher.
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Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
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