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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
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It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.
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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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Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
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[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
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There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.
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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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I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
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[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.
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My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.
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Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.
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The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
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What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.
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Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
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I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.
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And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic
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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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And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
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