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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.
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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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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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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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[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
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Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
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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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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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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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The way I was singing the songs was jazz
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.
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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
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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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I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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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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