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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to the calling Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush... One more Moondance with you in the moonlight On a magic night
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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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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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In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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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 think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
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