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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. -- Van Morrison
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Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee ... Give me my rapture today. -- Van Morrison
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The summer breeze was blowing on your face
Within your violet you treasure your summery words
And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden -- Van Morrison
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When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love. -- Van Morrison
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Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown. -- Van Morrison
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time. -- Van Morrison
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever. -- Van Morrison
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game. -- Van Morrison
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Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied -- Van Morrison
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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 -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music. -- Van Morrison
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. -- Van Morrison
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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, and baby, all your dirt will turn into gold. -- Van Morrison
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. -- Van Morrison
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Smell the sea and feel the sky. -- Van Morrison
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. -- Van Morrison
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See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around. -- Van Morrison
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Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best. -- Van Morrison
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And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain ... -- Van Morrison
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Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child. -- Van Morrison
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There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain. -- Van Morrison
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There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it. -- Van Morrison
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it. -- Van Morrison
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Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ... -- Van Morrison
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. -- Van Morrison
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. -- Van Morrison
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Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back. -- Van Morrison
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You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay ... -- Van Morrison
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music. -- Van Morrison
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When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone. -- Van Morrison
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times! -- Van Morrison
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Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love. -- Van Morrison
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. -- Van Morrison
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. -- Van Morrison
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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here' ... the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me. -- Van Morrison
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This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood. -- Van Morrison
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars. -- Van Morrison
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You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs. -- Van Morrison
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When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this. -- Van Morrison
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. -- Van Morrison
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play. -- Van Morrison
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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity. -- Van Morrison
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Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion. -- Van Morrison
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Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl. -- Van Morrison
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If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me? -- Van Morrison
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There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire? -- Van Morrison
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Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do. -- Van Morrison
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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 -- Van Morrison
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At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. -- Van Morrison
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I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife. -- Van Morrison
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. -- Van Morrison
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Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet. -- Van Morrison
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When you hear the music ringin' in your soul
And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows
And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun -- Van Morrison
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. -- Van Morrison
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Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are -- Van Morrison
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. -- Van Morrison
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When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all ... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through. -- Van Morrison
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I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love. -- Van Morrison
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I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things. -- Van Morrison
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not. -- Van Morrison
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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold -- Van Morrison
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. -- Van Morrison
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. -- Van Morrison
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In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me. -- Van Morrison
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The wild night is calling. -- Van Morrison
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Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along. -- Van Morrison
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The future is keeping you out of the present time. -- Van Morrison
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. -- Van Morrison
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern. -- Van Morrison
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B. -- Van Morrison
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I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more. -- Van Morrison
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Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. -- Van Morrison
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. -- Van Morrison
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Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed. -- Van Morrison
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For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls. -- Van Morrison
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. -- Van Morrison
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Going down the old mine with a transistor radio. -- Van Morrison
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out. -- Van Morrison
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It's a marvelous night for a moondance! -- Van Morrison
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It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach. -- Van Morrison
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These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now. -- Van Morrison
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. -- Van Morrison
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Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child. -- Van Morrison
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Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed? -- Van Morrison
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. -- Van Morrison
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. -- Van Morrison
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You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind
Standing on that windswept hillside
Listening to the church bells chime
Listen to the church bells chime
In that magic time ... -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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Don't lose the wonder in your eyes
It's right there when you smile ...
If we go back, for a while
Let me go back, for a while
To that magic time -- Van Morrison
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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. -- Van Morrison
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. -- Van Morrison
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Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee. -- Van Morrison
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You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see. -- Van Morrison
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. -- Van Morrison
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Let your soul and spirit fly. -- Van Morrison
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In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord. -- Van Morrison
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Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand. -- Van Morrison
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No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden. -- Van Morrison
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My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me. -- Van Morrison
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Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend. -- Van Morrison
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Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. -- Van Morrison
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. -- Van Morrison
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. -- Van Morrison
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Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn. -- Van Morrison
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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. -- Van Morrison
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity. -- Van Morrison
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I never, ever said that I was a nice guy. -- Van Morrison
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A fantabulous night to make romance. -- Van Morrison
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You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream. -- Van Morrison
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If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above. -- Van Morrison
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Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. -- Van Morrison
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring. -- Van Morrison
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If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel? -- Van Morrison
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. -- Van Morrison
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If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically. -- Van Morrison
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. -- Van Morrison
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Hearing the blues changed my life. -- Van Morrison
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The way I was singing the songs was jazz -- Van Morrison
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The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth. -- Van Morrison
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Men come, men go, all things remain in God. -- Van Morrison
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If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not. -- Van Morrison