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

~Van Morrison

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

~Van Morrison

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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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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

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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 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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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: August 31st, 1945

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