I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of… — 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
The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school. — 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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![“[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d3/van-morrison-1192_existential_jean-paul-sartre-was-a-throwback-to-the_2723543.jpg)
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