Van Morrison Quotes

117 quotes in 1171 categories

• Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
• Hearing the blues changed my life.
• I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
• I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
• I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
• It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
• I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
• I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken…
• There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is,…
• My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
• My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
• The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
• When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big…
• You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Browse Van Morrison Quotes by Category