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Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Hands
Music
Important
Never
Professionals
Entirely
Forget
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