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The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.
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If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.
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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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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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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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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
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[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
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