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There's a kind of a line between music and math, so i guess i got the music gene, thank goodness. but my mother wasn't too thrilled. she wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and i didn't have - as he said, i don't really have the strength to do that.
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There's A Kind Of A Line Between

Olivia Newton-John
There's a kind of a line between music and math, so i guess i got the music gene, thank goodness. but my mother wasn't too thrilled. she wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and i didn't have - as he said, i don't really have the strength to do that.
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