I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the… — Van Morrison Copy Share
I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I… — Van Morrison Copy Share
It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and… — Van Morrison Copy Share
I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo.… — Van Morrison Copy Share
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… — Van Morrison Copy Share
My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those… — Van Morrison Copy Share
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. — Van Morrison Copy Share
I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later. — Van Morrison Copy Share
Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just… — Van Morrison Copy Share
At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. — Van Morrison Copy Share
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,… — Van Morrison Copy Share
I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also… — Van Morrison Copy Share
There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct… — Van Morrison Copy Share
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