We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who actually listens? Maybe a few po… - Alan Watts
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We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who actually listens? Maybe a few pot-smokers.
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
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