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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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George Morrison
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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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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?
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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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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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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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Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.
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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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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
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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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A fantabulous night to make romance.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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