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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.
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