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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.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.
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I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.
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Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
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This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.
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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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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
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The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.
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Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.
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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.
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Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
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