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When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.
Mike Dirnt
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Mike Dirnt
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 4
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