Van Morrison Quotes
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I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
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I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.
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When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now...I was very young and i followed something. (1993)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.
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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
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We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.
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I don't think I will ever mellow out. I think if you mellow out, you get eaten up. You become like a commodity. So I don't think I will mellow out. It is not in my blood.
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.
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There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.
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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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J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.
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The odd time something happens and you go into some kind of enchantment (on stage). But you have to work very hard to get that. Most of the time you're just playing and singing the songs, and there's no guarantee that you are going to get anywhere....
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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.
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If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.
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I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.
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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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I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.