Van Morrison Quotes

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• Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music,…
• Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take…
• Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
• If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop.…
• Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are
• The way I was singing the songs was jazz
• I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.
• All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.
• A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
• I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
• I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
• If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
• You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
• Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love…

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