Van Morrison

The wild night is calling.

— Van Morrison

“I just wanna get on with the show.”

— Van Morrison

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

— Van Morrison

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

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Smell the sea and feel the sky.

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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

— Van Morrison

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

— Van Morrison

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

— Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

— Van Morrison

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

— Van Morrison

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

— Van Morrison

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

— Van Morrison

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

— Van Morrison

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

— Van Morrison

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

— Van Morrison

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

— Van Morrison

“I miss you so much, I can't stand it Feels like my heart is breaking in two My head says no, but…

— Van Morrison

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I…

— Van Morrison

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that…

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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…

— Van Morrison

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the…

— Van Morrison

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

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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.

— Van Morrison

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that…

— Van Morrison

Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to…

— Van Morrison

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody…

— Van Morrison

Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's…

— Van Morrison

There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do…

— Van Morrison

I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country…

— Van Morrison

There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books…

— Van Morrison

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

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

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

— Van Morrison

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

— Van Morrison

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

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A fantabulous night to make romance.

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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

— Van Morrison

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

— Van Morrison

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

— Van Morrison

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold

— Van Morrison