Top 100 Van Morrison Quotes
#1. Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee ... Give me my rapture today.
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#2. Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are
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#3. 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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#4. Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
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#5. 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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#6. Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
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#7. When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.
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#8. There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?
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#9. 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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#11. You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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#12. It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
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#13. Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.
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#14. I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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#16. I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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#17. If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
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#18. At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.
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#19. Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember ... when life made more sense ... Take me back, take me back, take me way back ... to when life made more sense.
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#20. 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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#21. Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold
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#22. If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?
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#24. 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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#25. You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
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#26. Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.
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#27. As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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#28. Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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#29. 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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#30. In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.
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#31. Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.
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#32. I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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#33. My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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#34. Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
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#35. Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
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#36. From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
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#37. When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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#38. Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.
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#39. When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all ... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.
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#40. Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
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#41. My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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#42. Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
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#43. 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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#44. I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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#45. When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.
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#46. Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
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#47. 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.
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#48. A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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#49. Let go into the Mystery, let yourself go. You've got to open up your heart, that's all I know. Trust what I say and do what you're told, and baby, all your dirt will turn into gold.
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#50. 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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#51. See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
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#52. I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
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#53. Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
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#54. 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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#55. I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
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#56. I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
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#57. These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
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#58. I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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#59. Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
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#60. Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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#61. If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.
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#62. When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.
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#63. Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
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#64. I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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#65. If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
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#66. And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And magnificently we will fold into the mystic
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#67. Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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#68. When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
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#70. 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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#72. Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
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#73. Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
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#74. It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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#75. I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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#76. 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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#77. If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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#78. I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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#79. 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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#80. 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.
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#81. You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.
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#83. Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.
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#84. Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ...
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#85. Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.
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#86. In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.
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#87. Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child.
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#88. You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind
Standing on that windswept hillside
Listening to the church bells chime
Listen to the church bells chime
In that magic time ...
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#89. The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
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#90. Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
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#91. No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
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#92. I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.
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#93. Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
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#94. The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
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#95. Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
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#96. I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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#97. You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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#98. 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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#99. The summer breeze was blowing on your face
Within your violet you treasure your summery words
And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden
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#100. You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay ...
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