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If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.
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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.
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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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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.
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Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?
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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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If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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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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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
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