Van Morrison Quotes

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• 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.
• Smell the sea and feel the sky.
• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
• If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and…
• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
• Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
• No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
• I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.
• Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
• Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
• I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
• Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
• You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
• A fantabulous night to make romance.
• The wild night is calling.
• Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
• If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.
• These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only…

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