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I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
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You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.
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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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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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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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Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child.
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Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
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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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