QUOTES by George Ivan Morrison
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"I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time."
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"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
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"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
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"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
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"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
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"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
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"These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over."
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"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
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"I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out."
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"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
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"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
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"I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever."
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"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
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"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
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"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."
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"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
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"I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice."
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"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."
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"Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play."
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"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music."
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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
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"You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs."
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"For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls."
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"My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now."
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"I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern."
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"My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me."
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