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Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.
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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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I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.
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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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There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
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Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.
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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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I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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The way I was singing the songs was jazz
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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
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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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Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
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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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At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.
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If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?
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I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
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