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Inspirational Quotes by Van Morrison
- You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
- 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…
- 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 never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
- 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…
- When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.
- You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
- Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
- Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
- 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.
- As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
- 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.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento