British - Musician | August 31, 1945 -
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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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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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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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'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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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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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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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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