وان موریسون

Person · Open Library

Works

17

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Northern Ireland

Active from

1945-08-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,673,691

Total plays

60,899,840

Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career began in the 1960s. His albums have achieved commercial success in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK Top 40, as well as internationally in countries including Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Morrison has scored top ten albums in the UK across four consecutive decades, most recently with "Latest Record Project, Volume 1" (2021). <a href="h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

• “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.”
• “Where I feel this has cost me is in the personality situation, where you're expected to be a personality. You not only have to write and record, but you have to go out and sell it. Well, I'm not a salesman, and I'm very bad at selling things. If I had to do that for a living, I'd probably be completely broke. I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.”
• “Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.”
• “Like I say, the way I write songs is, you know, inspirational. I have to wait for it to happen. And when it happens I get lines, and I just write them down, you know. I'm not sort of a Tin Pan Alley sort of songwriter. I just sort of write down what I get - without censoring or questioning what it is and what it means, you know. Like later on I look at what it means, but not at the time.”
• “Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”
• “With Moondance, I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way I wrote that one. I don't really have any words to particularly describe the song, sophisticated is probably the word I'm looking for. For me, Moondance is a sophisticated song. Frank Sinatra wouldn't be out of place singing that.”

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Key facts

Also known as

Van the Man , The Belfast Cowboy

Born

George Ivan Morrison , ( 1945-08-31 ) 31 August 1945 (age 80) , Belfast , Northern Ireland

Genres

Blue-eyed soul Celtic rock R&B folk blues jazz country gospel Christian

Occupations

Musician singer songwriter

Instruments

Vocals guitar harmonica saxophone

Works

Van Morrison discography

Years active

1958–present

Labels

Decca Parrot Bang Warner Bros. London Mercury Exile Polydor Verve Pointblank Virgin Universal Blue Note Lost Highway Listen to the Lion EMI Manhattan RCA BMG Sony Legacy

Formerly of

Them

Website

vanmorrison .com

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