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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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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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Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
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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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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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If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.
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If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
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What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.
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This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
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I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.
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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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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
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