Van Morrison Quotes

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• If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
• Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
• Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
• You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...
• Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and…
• When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round,…
• Let go into the Mystery, let yourself go. You've got to open up your heart, that's all I know. Trust what I say and do…
• Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take…
• I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't…
• I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.
• There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets…
• Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words…
• From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright…
• You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
• 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 - I lived…
• It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
• Let your soul and spirit fly.
• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
• When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is…

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