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Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
Beck
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Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: July 8
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Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
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