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Van Morrison
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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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" The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. "
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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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" You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. "
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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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" Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. "
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" You've got to separate the singer and the songs. "
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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 write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. "
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" Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. "
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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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" 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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" Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. "
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