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Luc Ferrari

"I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too."

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"I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too."

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