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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, ever said that I was a nice guy.
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I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.
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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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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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The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
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My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.
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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
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When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.
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I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
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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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Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
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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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