Quotes by Van Morrison

About Van Morrison:

Sir George Ivan Morrison is a Northern Irish singer, songwriter and musician. He has received six Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2015 he was knighted for his services to popular music.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Van Morrison

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

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

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

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.

Van Morrison

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

Van Morrison

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

Van Morrison

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

Van Morrison

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

Van Morrison

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

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

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

Van Morrison

Author Bio

  • NameVan Morrison
  • DescriptionNorthern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
  • BornAugust 31, 1945
  • CountryNorthern Ireland
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Poet; Composer; Musician
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Officier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?