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Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
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If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.
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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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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 just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.
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If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.
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I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
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All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.
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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.
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