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I try to write songs inspired by the conversations you can have on the tram, among people, where you immediately realize the state of society. I don't want to teach, I just want to be a chronicler.

— Rino Gaetano

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Who throws the bomb and who hides their hand.

The effendi is that gentleman who habitually consumes a cup of petroleum at five in the afternoon.

The next piece I'm doing [Aida] is the story of the last 50 years in Italy, told through the loves and moods of a woman named Aida.

There are people who are paid to report news, others to keep it hidden, and others to falsify it. I am not paid to do any of these things.

I think that Luigi Tenco died of boredom ten years ago because for twenty-eight years Sanremo has always been the same, because there is no real intention to change it.

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