Top 100 Quotes About Van Morrison
#1. I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
Steve Bisley
#2. I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.
Eleanor Friedberger
#3. Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.
Jim Sullivan
#4. I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.
Ted Nugent
#5. Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
Greil Marcus
#6. I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.
Jools Holland
#7. The British rockers saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.
Mose Allison
#8. Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today?
Andrea Kayne Kaufman
#9. I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
Rachel Zoe
#10. Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.
Steve Erickson
#11. If you don't start with crazy, crazy love, the kind of love that Van Morrison sings about, then you don't have a shot to go the distance. Love's a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.
Caroline Kepnes
#12. A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison
#13. Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
Van Morrison
#14. 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
#15. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.
Steven Van Zandt
#16. Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
Van Morrison
#17. 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
#18. I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison
#19. 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.
Van Morrison
#20. 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.
Van Morrison
#21. 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.
Van Morrison
#22. Don't lose the wonder in your eyes
It's right there when you smile ...
If we go back, for a while
Let me go back, for a while
To that magic time
Van Morrison
#23. Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
Van Morrison
#24. This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.
Van Morrison
#25. My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
Van Morrison
#26. Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
Van Morrison
#27. 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.
Van Morrison
#28. I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
Van Morrison
#29. 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.
Van Morrison
#30. There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison
#31. When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
Van Morrison
#32. 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
Van Morrison
#33. My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
Van Morrison
#34. 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.
Van Morrison
#35. Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.
Van Morrison
#36. If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.
Van Morrison
#37. I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.
Van Morrison
#38. Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
Van Morrison
#39. Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
Van Morrison
#40. 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.
Van Morrison
#41. I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van Morrison
#42. 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.
Van Morrison
#43. Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?
Van Morrison
#44. Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.
Van Morrison
#45. 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.
Van Morrison
#46. 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.
Van Morrison
#47. 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.
Van Morrison
#48. Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones.
Van Morrison
#49. Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
Van Morrison
#50. I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
Van Morrison
#51. I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
Van Morrison
#52. Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
Van Morrison
#53. 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.
Van Morrison
#54. See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
Van Morrison
#55. 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.
Van Morrison
#56. When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.
Van Morrison
#57. You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison
#58. I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
Van Morrison
#60. There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.
Van Morrison
#61. I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
Van Morrison
#62. 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.
Van Morrison
#63. It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
Van Morrison
#64. You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
Van Morrison
#66. 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.
Van Morrison
#67. 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?
Van Morrison
#68. If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
Van Morrison
#69. 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.
Van Morrison
#70. Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison
#71. I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
Van Morrison
#72. I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison
#73. 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.
Van Morrison
#74. Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
Van Morrison
#75. 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.
Van Morrison
#76. 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.
Van Morrison
#77. Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are
Van Morrison
#78. 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.
Van Morrison
#79. 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.
Van Morrison
#80. Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
Van Morrison
#81. My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Van Morrison
#82. You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
Van Morrison
#83. I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
Van Morrison
#84. 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.
Van Morrison
#85. In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.
Van Morrison
#86. I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
Van Morrison
#87. 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.
Van Morrison
#88. Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison
#89. As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Van Morrison
#90. Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
Van Morrison
#91. You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
Van Morrison
#92. Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here' ... the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
Van Morrison
#93. 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!
Van Morrison
#95. 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?
Van Morrison
#96. You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison
#97. Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold
Van Morrison
#98. 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.
Van Morrison
#99. 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.
Van Morrison
#100. At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.
Van Morrison
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