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It's a marvelous night for a moondance!
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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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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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
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When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.
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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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The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.
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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 do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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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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There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.
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I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.
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The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold
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Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
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