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Quotes from An Oral History of Popular Music — Van Morrison

born 1945 Northern Ireland

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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.

An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.

An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.

An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Van Morrison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.