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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?
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That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.
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I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.
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I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.
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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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I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
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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 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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