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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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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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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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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.
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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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Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.
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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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Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
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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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And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic
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When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.
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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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