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I educated myself. To me, school was boring. — Van Morrison

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. — Van Morrison

In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me. — Van Morrison

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.' — Steve Bisley

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars. — Van Morrison

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed. — Van Morrison

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. — Van Morrison

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. — Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion. — Van Morrison

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here' ... the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me. — Van Morrison

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay ... — Van Morrison

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. — Van Morrison

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. — Van Morrison

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 there before I was famous. — Van Morrison

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows. — Van Morrison

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden. — Van Morrison

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game. — Van Morrison

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio. — Van Morrison

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things. — Van Morrison

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. — Greil Marcus

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see. — Van Morrison

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 inspiration. — Van Morrison

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. — Van Morrison

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not. — Van Morrison

Men come, men go, all things remain in God. — Van Morrison

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction. — Van Morrison

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity. — Van Morrison

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. — Van Morrison

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. — Van Morrison

Hearing the blues changed my life. — Van Morrison

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. — Van Morrison

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. — Van Morrison

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! — Van Morrison

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay. — Rachel Zoe

The wild night is calling. — Van Morrison

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet. — Van Morrison

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend. — Van Morrison

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening. — Van Morrison

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. — Van Morrison

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream. — Van Morrison

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. — Van Morrison

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. — Van Morrison

A fantabulous night to make romance. — Van Morrison

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee. — Van Morrison

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl. — Van Morrison

Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love. — Van Morrison

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. — Van Morrison

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music. — Van Morrison

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through. — Van Morrison

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 over. — Van Morrison

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel? — Van Morrison

It's a marvelous night for a moondance! — Van Morrison

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. — Van Morrison

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. — Van Morrison

I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more. — Van Morrison

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. — Van Morrison

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach. — Van Morrison

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B. — Van Morrison

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, see me through. — Van Morrison

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold — Van Morrison

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. — Van Morrison

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. — Van Morrison

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. — Van Morrison

The way I was singing the songs was jazz — Van Morrison

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along. — Van Morrison

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. — Van Morrison

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. — Van Morrison

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child. — Van Morrison

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood. — Van Morrison

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand. — Van Morrison

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. — Van Morrison

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord. — Van Morrison

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. — Van Morrison

From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road — Van Morrison

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. — Van Morrison

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. — Van Morrison

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. — Van Morrison

I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me. — Van Morrison

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ... — Van Morrison

Let your soul and spirit fly. — Van Morrison

Smell the sea and feel the sky. — Van Morrison

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. — Van Morrison

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. — Van Morrison

I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am. — Van Morrison

If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above. — Van Morrison

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth. — Van Morrison

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied — Van Morrison

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 over. — Van Morrison

You've got to separate the singer and the songs. — Van Morrison

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. — Van Morrison

And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And magnificently we will fold into the mystic — Van Morrison

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 to play. — Van Morrison

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. — Van Morrison

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife. — Van Morrison

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around. — Van Morrison

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are — Van Morrison

The future is keeping you out of the present time. — Van Morrison

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. — Van Morrison