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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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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.
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There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.
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Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to the calling Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush... One more Moondance with you in the moonlight On a magic night
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Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
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All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.
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Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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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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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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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.
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For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
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If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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