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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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Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
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[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.
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If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.
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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.
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Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.
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It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.
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[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
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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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If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.
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It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
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The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
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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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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
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From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
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I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
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