Van Morrison Quotes
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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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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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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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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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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.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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What you see is what you get.
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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.
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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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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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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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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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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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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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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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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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[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.
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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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The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.
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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.
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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.
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Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.