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The only time I actually work with words is when I’m writing a song. After it’s written, I release the words; and every time I’m singing, I’m singing syllables. I’m singing signs and phrases.
Van Morrison, as quoted in the predictably brilliant Greil Marcus treatise When That Rough God Goes Riding.
"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." -- Mark Twain
