Van Morrison Quotes
27 quotations by Van Morrison
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. |
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. |
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. |
What you see is what you get. |
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. |
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. |
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. |
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. |
The future is keeping you out of the present time. |
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. |
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. |
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. |
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. |
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. |
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times! |
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever. |
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. |
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. |
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. |
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. |
I educated myself. To me, school was boring. |
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. |
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. |
Hearing the blues changed my life. |
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. |
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play. |