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Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.
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Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.
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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.
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Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time
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The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
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I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.
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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
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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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Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child.
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Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
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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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It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
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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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I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
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