You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that. — 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
It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened… — 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
What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Heavy Connection is just basically about psychic stuff...it's kind of about connections that you're not normally making. It's like a fate number… — 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
I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early… — 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
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — 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… — 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
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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![“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/quotes/img-quotes/f99/van-morrison-1192_bootlegging_that-song-you-got-to-make-it-through-the_1193292.jpg)
