Van Morrison Quotes

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Van Morrison

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 31, 1945

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Van Morrison

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

Van Morrison

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

Van Morrison

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

Van Morrison

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

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

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

Van Morrison

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Van Morrison

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

Van Morrison

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

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.

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

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Van Morrison

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

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

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

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

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

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