Van Morrison Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Van Morrison
Van Morrison Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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 now.
Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?
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.
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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.
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!
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.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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.
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.
I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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.
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.
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 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.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ...
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.
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
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.