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Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
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It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.
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I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
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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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You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.
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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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When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
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Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.
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What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
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The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
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Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.
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Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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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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I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
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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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There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.
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When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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