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If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.
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Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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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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I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.
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I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.
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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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There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
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It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
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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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And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic
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