Van Morrison Quotes

Van Morrison (43)

Birth:	31st August, 1945
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist, Singer

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Van Morrison is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are described as transcendental, while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are critically acclaimed and appear at the top of many greatest album lists.

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Births

• 1936 - Harold Budd
• 1965 - John Christopher Reilly Jr.
• 1937 - Archie Shepp
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• 1996 - Joseph Mitchell
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• 1969 - John Foster Dulles

• 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 never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn’t mean anything to me.

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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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• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

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• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

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• I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That’s what I apply to everything.

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• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

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• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

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• Every performance is different. That’s the beauty of it.

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• I don’t feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That’s what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

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• I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative.

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• I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

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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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• If it’s what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

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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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• Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

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• My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that’s what I’m doing.

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• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

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• There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

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• When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

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