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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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Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
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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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Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.
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Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.
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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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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Heavy Connection is just basically about psychic stuff...it's kind of about connections that you're not normally making. It's like a fate number where you're making psychic connections that you're not really aware of but they're there.
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My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.
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Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are
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Let your soul and spirit fly.
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Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.
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There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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A fantabulous night to make romance.
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