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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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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
Van Morrison
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When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
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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.
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I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.
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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 don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
Van Morrison
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Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.
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Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
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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 -
The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison
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It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.
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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.
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There is one thing I don't understand about Astral Weeks. Of all the records I have ever made that one is definitely not rock. You could throw that record at the wall, take it to music colleges, analyze it to death. Nobody is going to tell me that it is a rock album. Why they keep calling it one I have no idea.
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
Van Morrison