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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.
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All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.
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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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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.
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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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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 have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
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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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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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