Van Morrison Quotes

• 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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• You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.

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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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• 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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• 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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• There’s always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That’s what life is made of. I don’t know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

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

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

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• The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

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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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• 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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• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

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

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• I’ve never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I’ve felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

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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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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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