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Van Morrison

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hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...


— Van Morrison


#ocean #sailing #sea #ocean

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.


— Van Morrison


#music #music business #spiritual

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.


— Van Morrison


#became #days #get #long #long time

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.


— Van Morrison


#always #anything #else #got #i

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


— Van Morrison


#highs #life #lows #part #situation

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


— Van Morrison


#criticism #good #i #i do #most

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


#because #experiences #had #happy #i

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


— Van Morrison


#early #i #learnt #never #recordings

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


— Van Morrison


#cards #leave #lose #must #order

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.


— Van Morrison


#i #just #need #negativity #somewhere






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Then when he heard Jimmy Giuffre playing saxophone on "The Train and The River" he talked his father into buying him a saxophone and took lessons in tenor sax and music reading. Them: 1964–66

The roots of Them the band that first broke Morrison on the international scene came in April 1964 when Morrison responded to an advert for musicians to play at a new R&B club at the Maritime Hotel – an old dance hall frequented by sailors. When Lonnie Donegan had a hit with "Rock Island Line" written by Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) Morrison felt he was familiar with and able to connect with skiffle music as he had been hearing Lead Belly before that.

His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and R&B such as the popular singles "Brown Eyed Girl" "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" "Domino" and "Wild Night". Morrison continues to record and tour producing albums and live performances that sell well and are generally warmly received sometimes collaborating with other artists such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains.

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