Van Morrison Quotes

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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 And the people passing by just stare in wild wonder And the inside jukebox roars just like thunder

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Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

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If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

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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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You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

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No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

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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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Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

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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.

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I don't think I will ever mellow out. I think if you mellow out, you get eaten up. You become like a commodity. So I don't think I will mellow out. It is not in my blood.

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

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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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There is one thing I don't understand about Astral Weeks. Of all the records I have ever made that one is definitely not rock. You could throw that record at the wall, take it to music colleges, analyze it to death. Nobody is going to tell me that it is a rock album. Why they keep calling it one I have no idea.

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Like I say, the way I write songs is, you know, inspirational. I have to wait for it to happen. And when it happens I get lines, and I just write them down, you know. I'm not sort of a Tin Pan Alley sort of songwriter. I just sort of write down what I get - without censoring or questioning what it is and what it means, you know. Like later on I look at what it means, but not at the time.

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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.

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When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now... I was very young and i followed something.

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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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Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

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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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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.

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The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.

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I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.

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Where I feel this has cost me is in the personality situation, where you're expected to be a personality. You not only have to write and record, but you have to go out and sell it. Well, I'm not a salesman, and I'm very bad at selling things. If I had to do that for a living, I'd probably be completely broke. I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.

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With Moondance, I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way I wrote that one. I don't really have any words to particularly describe the song, sophisticated is probably the word I'm looking for. For me, Moondance is a sophisticated song. Frank Sinatra wouldn't be out of place singing that.

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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.

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