The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from. — 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
In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — 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
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while… — 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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