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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

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

Van Morrison

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Van Morrison

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

Van Morrison

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

Van Morrison

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.

Van Morrison

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

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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 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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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

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Hearing the blues changed my life.

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

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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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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

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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 think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Van Morrison

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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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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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

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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 don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

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The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Van Morrison

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

Van Morrison

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

Van Morrison

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

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

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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

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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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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

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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.

Van Morrison

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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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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For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

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