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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.
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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.
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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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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 aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
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That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
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If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.
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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.
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Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
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Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
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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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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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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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No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
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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.
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It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.
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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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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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