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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.

Bjork

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Awards Eggs Input
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People Understated Vision
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Idiosyncratic Most People
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Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
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Everybody Getting Journalist Wrong
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Guatemala House Sticks
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Creative Good Relationships Work
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Anything Doing Lose Necessary
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Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
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Format People Product Religious Song

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.

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