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

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

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

The wild night is calling.

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

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.

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

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

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

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

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

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.

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.

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

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, tell me about it.

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

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

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

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.

Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.

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.

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

Let your soul and spirit fly.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

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

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

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A fantabulous night to make romance.

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

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

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