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Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
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I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.
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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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The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
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I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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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'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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Smell the sea and feel the sky.
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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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The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?
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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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Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
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