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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.
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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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There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
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My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.
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When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.
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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'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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