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
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
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. — 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
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 think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before 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
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
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
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
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
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. — 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
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
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 know how… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Image
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later. — 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 you just… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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