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My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.
Van Morrison
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Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.
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I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.
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It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?
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[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.
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