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Hearing the blues changed my life.

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.
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Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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