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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.
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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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The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.
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Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
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Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
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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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I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
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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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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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What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
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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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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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