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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.
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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 to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.
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I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
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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 never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
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Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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Let your soul and spirit fly.
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The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.
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You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
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From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
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Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child.
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When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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