Van Morrison Quotes
When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
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9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.
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I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I like to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.
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Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don't forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: 'The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.'
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One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.
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When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
