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Van Morrison, OBE, rodným jménem George Ivan Morrison, je britský zpěvák, písničkář, básník a multiinstrumentalista, nositel Řádu britského impéria a držitel hudební ceny Grammy.

Patří k nejvýznamnějším představitelům populární hudby v její dosavadní historii. Vyniká suverénním hlasovým projevem a je také uznávaným skladatelem a mnohostranným hudebníkem . Jeho osobitý hudební výraz vyrůstá z kořenů rhythm and blues a keltské hudby, který je dále obohacen o vlivy rocku, folku, soulu, jazzu i country. Je pro něj příznačné střídání rozmanitých stylů a jejich míšení. V anglofonní oblasti se ujala jeho přezdívka „Van the Man“ .

K jeho nejúspěšnějším písním patří „Gloria“, kterou nazpíval se skupinou Them a kterou později převzala Patti Smithová . K jeho dalším písňovým úspěchům z jeho následné sólové dráhy patří Brown Eyed Girl, v 70. letech pak Moondance, Domino, Wild Night a další. Natočil na 35 alb, z nichž zvláště legendární Astral Weeks a komerčně úspěšné Moondance se řadí k základním albům rockové historie a v autoritativních anketách hudebních kritiků celého světa se trvale objevují na nejpřednějších příčkách .

V jeho dosavadní tvorbě lze pozorovat střetávání i propojování několika určujících poloh: folk-rockové, především na albech Astral Weeks a Veedon Fleece , soul-rockové s prvky blues, zvláště Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir , přičemž určitou syntézu obou uvedených poloh představuje album Saint Dominic's Preview . Country se objevuje na albech Tupelo Honey , Into the Music a zejména Pay the Devil . K jeho umělecky nejpřesvědčivějším výkonům na poli jazzové inspirace patří album What's Wrong with This Picture? .

V roce 1993 se stal členem Rock'n'rollové síně slávy a v roce 2003 vstoupil do Síně slávy písničkářů . Je populární ve Velké Británii, v rodném Irsku nebo ve Spojených státech amerických. Svojí tvorbou ovlivnil řadu dalších tvůrců . Wikipedia  

✵ 31. srpen 1945
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Zdroj: [Kohut, Joe, Kohut, John J., Rockecy aneb Kniha rockových citátů, Ladislav Šenkyřík, Volvox Globator, Praha, 1996, 1, 153, 41, 80-7207-016-9]

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Van Morrison: Citáty anglicky

“Open your arms in the early mornin'
When the light comes shinin' through
Can't you hear my heart beat just for you?
It's beating so wild, honey.
And light comes shinin'
Singin' my song
And the band is playin'
And the music is tried and true.”

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Wild Honey
Song lyrics, Common One (1980)

“Yonder comes my lady
Rainbow ribbons in her hair
Yonder comes my lady
Rainbow ribbons in her hair
Six white horses and a carriage
She's returning from the fair”

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Cyprus Avenue
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)

“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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An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

“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.”

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Who Was That Masked Man
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

“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.”

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Domino
Song lyrics, His Band and the Street Choir (1970)

“I walked in my greatcoat
Down through the days of the leaves.
No before after, yes after before
We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder
In the eternal presence, in the presence of the flame.”

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A Sense of Wonder
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)

“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.”

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These Are the Days
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

“So hard to find my way,
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My how you have grown,
Cast my memory back there, Lord
Sometimes I'm overcome thinking 'bout
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl.”

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Brown Eyed Girl
Song lyrics, Blowin' Your Mind! (1967)

“Got my ticket at the airport
Well I guess I've been marking time
I've been living in another country
That operates along entirely different lines
Keep me away from porter or whiskey
Don't play anything sentimental it'll make me cry
I've got to go back my friend
Is there really any need to ask why?”

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Got to Go Back
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)

“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.”

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Take It Where You Find It
Song lyrics, Wavelength (1978)

“And when that foghorn blows,
I will be coming home,
When that foghorn blows,
I wanna hear it, I don't have to fear it,
And I wanna 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 Mystic
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

“Come here my love
And I will lift my spirits high for you
I'd like to fly away and spend a day or two
Just contemplating the fields and leaves and talking about nothing
Just layin' down in shades of effervescent, effervescent odors
And shades of time and tide.”

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Come Here My Love
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

“I look at the side of your face as the sunlight comes
Streaming through the window in the autumn sunshine
And all the time going to Coney Island I'm thinking,
Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all the time.”

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Coney Island
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

“If I ventured in the slipstream,
Between the viaducts of your dream,
Where immobile steel rims crack,
And the ditch in the back roads stop,
Could you find me?
Would you kiss my eyes?
To lay me down,
In silence easy,
To be born again.
To be born again.”

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Astral Weeks
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)

“The warm look of radiance on your face
And your heart beating close to mine
And the evening fading in the candle glow
This must be what it's all about
Oh this must be what it's all about
This must be what paradise is like
So quiet in here. So peaceful in here
So quiet in here, yeah, so peaceful in here.”

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So Quiet In Here
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)

“When a man comes through
He must do what he's supposed to do
When a man comes through.
He can't do what everyone expects him to.”

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A New Kind of Man
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)

“Put your money where your mouth is
Then we can get something going
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime
And leave one or two cards showing.”

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Hard Nose the Highway
Song lyrics, Hard Nose the Highway (1973)

“When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me,
To feel like me.”

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Ivory Tower
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)

“Fair play to you,
Kilarney's lakes are so blue,
And the architecture I'm taking in with my mind,
So fine.”

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Fair Play
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

“And I shall search my soul,
I shall search my very soul,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion inside me.”

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Listen to the Lion
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)

“No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father and the
Son and the Holy Ghost
In the garden wet with rain.”

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In the Garden
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)

“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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An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

“And there's only one man knows way to go,
And we say 'Geronimo.”

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Fair Play
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

“Waiting for the sun to shine
And you know sometimes it gets so painful
Just like talking to yourself
When everything don't seem to have no rhyme or reason we all go
Do do loo do do, do do loo do do
Waiting for the sun to shine.”

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(Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball
Song lyrics, Tupelo Honey (1971)

“Someone to hold onto
And keep me from all fear
Someone to be my guiding light
And keep me ever dear
To keep me from my selfishness
To keep me from my sorrow
To lead me on to givingness
So I can see a new tomorrow.”

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If I Ever Needed Someone
Song lyrics, His Band and the Street Choir (1970)

“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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An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

“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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1993
As quoted in Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography (2003) by Clinton Heylin

“Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles, that's what you do.”

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Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

“Why did you leave America?
Why did you let me down?
And now that things seem better off,
Why do you come around?
You know I just can't see you now
In my new world crystal ball.
You know I just can't free you now,
That's not my job at all.”

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Street Choir
Song lyrics, His Band and the Street Choir (1970)

“And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like Jelly Roll
And it stoned me
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like goin' home.
And it stoned me.”

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And It Stoned Me
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)