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
When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to… — 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
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff,… — 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
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
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
