Van Morrison Quotes
- All Quotes
-
We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.
-
I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
-
I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
-
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
-
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
-
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
-
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
-
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
-
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.
-
[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
-
And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.
-
I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.
-
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
-
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
-
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
-
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.
-
The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.
-
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
-
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
-
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.