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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.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
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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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Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
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I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.
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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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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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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.
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At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.
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This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.
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The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
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A fantabulous night to make romance.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
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