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Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Rosanne Cash

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Rosanne Cash
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 24
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
Sometimes
Sky
Image
Conversation
Color
Song
Dream
Fragment
Music
Fragments
Everything
Begins

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