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 thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against… — 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
There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing… — 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
[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
Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision.… — 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
That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer… — 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
There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the… — 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
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
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
Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that… — 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
![“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.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/978/van-morrison-1192_feels_we-re-with-robbie-robertson-jazz-musicia_376618.jpg)
![“[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…” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/276/van-morrison-1192_concerts_the-music-is-about-for-the-purpose-of-ge_1965514.jpg)
![“That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that…” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f99/van-morrison-1192_bootlegging_that-song-you-got-to-make-it-through-the_1193292.jpg)
![“[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9e4/van-morrison-1192_art_rock-n-roll-is-still-a-primitive-form-an_465023.jpg)
