Be prepared Quote by Van Morrison

“In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.”

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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

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Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the…

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I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I…

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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and…

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I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and…

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I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how…

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My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those…

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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

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You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...

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I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

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Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

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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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To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the…

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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so…

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Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can only go…

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Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay…

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