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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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Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
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I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.
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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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Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.
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I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
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I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
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When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.
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Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
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The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
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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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Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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