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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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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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I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.
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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold
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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
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Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
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There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.
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I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.
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It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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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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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
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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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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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