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It's a marvelous night for a moondance!
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.
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Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
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No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
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[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.
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That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.
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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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[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
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The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
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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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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.
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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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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden
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If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.
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