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Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my 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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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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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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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.
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Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
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I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.
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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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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
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Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
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I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.
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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold
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Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
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I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.
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