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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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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.
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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.
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Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
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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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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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In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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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.
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It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.
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The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
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Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.
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I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
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What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.
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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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I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.
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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.
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