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You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

Mark Lanegan

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Mark Lanegan
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 25
Banjoist
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Ellensburg
Washington
Mark William Lanegan
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I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.
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The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.
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I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.
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There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.
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The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.
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When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.
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I think a myth is created from truth.
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I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.
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I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.
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Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.
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Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.
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I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.
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