If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.
Van MorrisonPerforming was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
Van MorrisonAny artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.
Van MorrisonI always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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