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born 1945 Northern Ireland
Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison, OBE (born August 31, 1945), generally known as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He plays a variety of instruments, including the guitar, harmonica, keyboards, drums, and saxophone.
Northern Ireland Drummers Music producers Songwriters Also known as: Morrison, Van, Van morrison
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.
Interview in Musician magazine (1987)
People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)
I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.
An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)
Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography (2003)
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
Too Late to Stop Now (1993)
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
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
Van Morrison: No Surrender (2005)
The odd time something happens and you go into some kind of enchantment (on stage). But you have to work very hard to get that. Most of the time you're just playing and singing the songs, and there's no guarantee that you are going to get anywhere....
Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography (2003)
The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.
An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)
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