Van Morrison

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all…

— Van Morrison

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

— Van Morrison

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right…

— Van Morrison

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

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

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that…

— Van Morrison

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

— Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

— Van Morrison

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

— Van Morrison

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

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

— Van Morrison

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I…

— Van Morrison

The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my…

— Van Morrison

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

— Van Morrison

The wild night is calling.

— Van Morrison

[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the…

— Van Morrison

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once…

— Van Morrison

The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a…

— Van Morrison

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this…

— Van Morrison

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

— Van Morrison

When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in…

— Van Morrison

[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing…

— Van Morrison

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody…

— Van Morrison

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

— Van Morrison

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

— Van Morrison