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It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
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I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
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I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.
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I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.
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Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
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Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
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I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.
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I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
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The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.
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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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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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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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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
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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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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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