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J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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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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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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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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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold
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I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.
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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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This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.
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Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
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My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.
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Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
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