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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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 all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
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I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
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I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.
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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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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
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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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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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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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I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.
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I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.
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I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.
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Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
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The way I was singing the songs was jazz
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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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Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.
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Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones.
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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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And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic
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