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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.
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Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
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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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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
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I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
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Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
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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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I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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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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You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
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You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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