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It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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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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Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.
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You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.
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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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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.
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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold
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