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If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.
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It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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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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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
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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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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
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You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.
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You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
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The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
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Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.
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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.
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There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
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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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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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Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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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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