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
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
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages… — 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
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 don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it,… — 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
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has… — 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
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
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
![“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)
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