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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

— Van Morrison

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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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