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What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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