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Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2017 source ↗
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Rickie Lee Jones
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That’s always changing, depending on how I think I’m going to die. At the moment, I’d like my own song Away from the Sky at my funeral.
Ed O'Brien
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I sang in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in a choir as a kid. The final movement, In Paradisum, is one of the most beautiful, seemingly simple pieces of music. So I’ll have that, please.
Sofie Gråbøl
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A song by Ellie Goulding – I am not telling you which one.
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Like you are standing with an army.
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