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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
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[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
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My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.
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When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.
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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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Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
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It's a marvelous night for a moondance!
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These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
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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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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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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 always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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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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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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If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
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I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.
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Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.
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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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