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“With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It's worth keeping that in check.” quote by Ben Howard — Download Open image

“With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It's worth keeping that in check.”

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