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Let your soul and spirit fly.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.
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The wild night is calling.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
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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'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway it just doesn't fit.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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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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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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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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I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
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From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
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I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.
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Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.
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Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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