Van Morrison Quotes:
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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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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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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There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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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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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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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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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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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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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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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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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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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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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 educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative.
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