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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.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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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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You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
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It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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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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Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.
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