British - Musician | August 31, 1945 -
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.
Van Morrison
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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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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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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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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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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