Van Morrison Quotes

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Van Morrison

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 31, 1945

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

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What you see is what you get.

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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

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

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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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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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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

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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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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

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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 went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

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

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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

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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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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

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