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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison
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Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
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Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.
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There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.
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At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.
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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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