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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.
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These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
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I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.
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Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.
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It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.
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Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
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Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.
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