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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.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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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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What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.
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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.
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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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[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.
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I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.
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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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Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
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Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
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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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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold
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