I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand… — 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
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
When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say… — 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 think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In… — 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
