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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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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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The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.
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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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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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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
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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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Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
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You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
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I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.
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If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.
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When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.
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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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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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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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I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.
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I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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