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I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
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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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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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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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Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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