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You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
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