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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.
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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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Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.
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I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.
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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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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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That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.
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The way I was singing the songs was jazz
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
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It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
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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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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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