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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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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
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I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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