Van Morrison Quotes

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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

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

Van Morrison

I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

Van Morrison

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

Van Morrison

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Van Morrison

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

Van Morrison

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.

Van Morrison

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

Van Morrison

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

Van Morrison

[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.

Van Morrison

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

Van Morrison

If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

Van Morrison

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

Van Morrison

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

Van Morrison

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.

Van Morrison

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

Van Morrison

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

Van Morrison

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.

Van Morrison

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

Van Morrison

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

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

Van Morrison

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

Van Morrison

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

Van Morrison

It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

Van Morrison

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

Van Morrison

It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.

Van Morrison

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

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Van Morrison

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

Van Morrison

I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture.

Van Morrison

[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

Van Morrison

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

Van Morrison

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

Van Morrison

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.

Van Morrison

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

Van Morrison

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

Van Morrison

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

Van Morrison

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

Van Morrison

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

Van Morrison

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

Van Morrison

When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.

Van Morrison

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Van Morrison

I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.

Van Morrison

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

Van Morrison

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

Van Morrison

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

Van Morrison

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

Van Morrison
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