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My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.
Van Morrison
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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.
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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
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Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
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I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
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