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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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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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