Van Morrison Quotes
Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.
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Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.
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Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.
