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Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
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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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That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.
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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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Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
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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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