Van Morrison Quotes

• Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

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• 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.

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• Hearing the blues changed my life.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• You’ve got to separate the singer and the songs.

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• I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

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• 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!

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• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Van Morrison (43)

Birth:	31st August, 1945
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist, Singer

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Van Morrison is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are described as transcendental, while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are critically acclaimed and appear at the top of many greatest album lists.

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Births

• 1870 - Alexander Berkman
• 1963 - Nicollette Sheridan
• 1937 - Marlo Thomas
• 1912 - Eleanor Powell
• 1943 - Philip Norman Bredesen Jr.

Deaths

• 1958 - Mel Ott
• 1996 - Mohammad Abdus Salam
• 2000 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp
• 1969 - Norman Lindsay