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I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

Ray LaMontagne

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Ray LaMontagne
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 18
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Nashua
New Hampshire
Raymond Charles Jack LaMontagne
Excited
Impossible
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