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Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.
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Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.
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[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.
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I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
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Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.
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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 do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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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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What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.
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You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
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Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
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