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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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Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
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Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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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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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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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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Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.
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What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.
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Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
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Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.
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Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.
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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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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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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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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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When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
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A fantabulous night to make romance.
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Smell the sea and feel the sky.
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