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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

— Van Morrison Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography (2003)

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page.

I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.

Interview in Musician magazine (1987)

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)

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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