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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.
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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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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.
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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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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 was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.
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Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
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I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.
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I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.
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Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to the calling Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush... One more Moondance with you in the moonlight On a magic night
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Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.
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Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.
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