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.
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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.
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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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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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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.
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Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
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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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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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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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There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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[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.
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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.
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I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.