Van Morrison famous quotes

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
-- Van Morrison

#Music #Spiritual #Music Is

A fantabulous night to make romance.
-- Van Morrison

#Night #Romance

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.
-- Van Morrison

#Dream #Scream #Compliment

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

#Black And White #Lows #Situation

Let go into the Mystery, let yourself go. You've got to open up your heart, that's all I know. Trust what I say and do what you're told, and baby, all your dirt will turn into gold.
-- Van Morrison

#Faith #Letting Go #Baby

Let your soul and spirit fly.
-- Van Morrison

#Soul #Flying #Spirit

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.
-- Van Morrison

#Politics #Persuasion #Halfway

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
-- Van Morrison

#Rocks #Soul #Want

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
-- Van Morrison

#Intuition #Instinct #Difficult

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

#Moon #Spoons #Silver

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

#Song #Jobs #Writing

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

#Motivational Sports #Winning #Order

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...
-- Van Morrison

#Ocean #Sea #Sky

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
-- Van Morrison

#Faith #Inspiration #Silence

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...
-- Van Morrison

#Faith #Inspiration #Fighting

Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time
-- Van Morrison

#Time #Eye #Magic

Smell the sea and feel the sky.
-- Van Morrison

#Smell #Sea #Sky

Hearing the blues changed my life.
-- Van Morrison

#Hearing #Changed #Changed My Life

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
-- Van Morrison

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
-- Van Morrison

#Inspirational #Eye #Causes

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
-- Van Morrison

#Thinking #Negative #Nostalgia

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

#Jazz #Understood

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

#You Can Do It

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

#Music #Goes On #Jazz

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
-- Van Morrison

#Heart #Thinking #Brain

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

#Use #Records

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun
-- Van Morrison

#Heart #Healing #Rocks

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

#Stars #Rocks #Competition

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

#Thinking #Music Industry #Irish Music

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.
-- Van Morrison

#Thinking #People #Liking Someone

Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.
-- Van Morrison

#Faith #Letting Go #Baby

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.
-- Van Morrison

#Faith #Inspiration #Thinking

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time...
-- Van Morrison

#Time #Feelings #Magic

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.
-- Van Morrison

#Faith #Inspiration #World

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time...
-- Van Morrison

#Time #Magic #Listening

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.
-- Van Morrison

#Differences #People #Kind

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.
-- Van Morrison

#Christian #Dark #Night

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
-- Van Morrison

#Dark #Sides #Lovers

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
-- Van Morrison

#Moon #Blue #Like You

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.
-- Van Morrison

#Rain #Fall #Complaining