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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. ↗

— Van Morrison

#attention #commercial #contemporary #i #me

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. ↗

— Van Morrison

#everything #how #i #jazz #understood

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous. ↗

— Van Morrison

#before #famous #i #i am #ireland

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over. ↗

— Van Morrison

#get #hit #just #need #over

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#level #nelson #takes #up #willie

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#controversial #easy #ever #i #intended

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#anybody #business #communication #extreme #having

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#became #certainly #deeply #dolls #i

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#celibate #consider #i #just #moment

It's always nice to receive a compliment. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#compliment #nice #receive