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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

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Joan Baez
Age: 84
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.
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