A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that… — 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 like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw… — 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 was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It's not that big a mystery about types. It's not even that big a mystery why so many people are picking up… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But… — 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
Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to… — 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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