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Van Morrison Quotes


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'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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

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

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

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

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

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

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

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.

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.

What you see is what you get.

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.

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.

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