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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
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