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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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