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Benedetto Croce said that everyone writes poetry until the age of eighteen. From the age of eighteen onwards, two categories of people continue to write poetry: poets and idiots. So, as a precaution, I would prefer to consider myself a singer-songwriter.

— Fabrizio De André

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Dear Andrea, I am your friend because you are the only priest who does not want to send me to heaven by force.

I've never seen a musician communicate with the audience like Luciano does.

After ten years of slapping each other, you either become friends or you kill each other.

I sang imitating Modugno, and besides, how could one not be influenced by him?

And then suddenly love burst out everywhere.

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