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Van Morrison, born on August 31, 1945, is a renowned singer-songwriter from Ireland. His musical style blends elements of blues, folk, rock, and soul, and he is known for his distinctive voice and emotional performances. Morrison's musical career began in the 1960s, and his representative works include 'Brown Eyed Girl', 'Moondance', and 'A Night in Tunes Town'.

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“Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.”

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“What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.”

Firsts Stuff Rocks Materials Aspect Excited Performing Rock N Roll

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“The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.”

Looks Made Country Hard Facts Stuff Realizing Rocks Type Rhythm Range Spectrum Ballads

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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.”

Way Writing Trying Wells Looks Whole Song Stuff My Own Rocks Rhythm Rock N Roll Integrating Ballads

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“I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.”

People Thinking Feelings Stuff Example Swings Copying

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“There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.”

People Kind Turns Stuff Gone Happened Turn-on

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“What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.”

Trying Song Stuff Simple Consciousness Extremes Streams Stream Of Consciousness Misinterpreted

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“I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.”

Knows Years Stuff Week

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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.”

Writing May Book Stuff Conscious Down And Determined

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“We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.”

People Thinking Stills Different Might Spirit Stuff Records Rocks Intellectual Research Library Checks Rock N Roll Primitive

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“I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.”

Mean Stuff Can Do Levels Groups Rocks New York Aspect Jazz Fingers Solo Session Drummer Snaps Groove

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“That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.”

Stuff Effects Jazz Soothing

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“I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.”

Philosophy Stuff Study Type Intellectual Pursuit Studying Philosophy

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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.”

Kind Mean Doe Whole Stuff Wonder Vision Too Much Particular Emphasis

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“It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.”

Want Real Stuff Difficult Collaboration Tape Pins

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“That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that. I found this Bo Carter record and he was just saying something about making it to the woods or something like that.”

World Writing Character Wanted Film Song Found Stuff Records Woods Singers Carter Just Saying Thesis Bootlegging

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“Heavy Connection is just basically about psychic stuff...it's kind of about connections that you're not normally making. It's like a fate number where you're making psychic connections that you're not really aware of but they're there.”

Kind Stuff Numbers Fate Connections Heavy Psychics

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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.”

Different Sometimes Stuff Lines Sticks Make Sense Rhyme Different Place Rhyming

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About the Author

Born: August 31, 1945
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 259

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