Van Morrison quotes - page 6

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 I want you to put on your pretty summer dress You can wear your Easter bonnet and all the rest And I wanna make love to you yes, yes, yes and the healing has begun. (Van Morrison)
Whenever God shines his light on me Opens up my eyes so I can see When I look up in the darkest night I know everything's going to be alright In deep confusion, in great despair When I reach out for him he is there When I am lonely as I can be I know that God shines his light on me. View quote
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The warm look of radiance on your face And your heart beating close to mine And the evening fading in the candle glow This must be what it's all about Oh this must be what it's all about This must be what paradise is like So quiet in here. So peaceful in here So quiet in here, yeah, so peaceful in here. View quote
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The way you see me walking on That's why I'm telling you in song There's only one way to get ahead You've got to give it up instead Start all over again. View quote
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These are the days of the endless summer These are the days, the time is now There is no past, there's only future There's only here, there's only now. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs. View quote
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. (Van Morrison)
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. View quote
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Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'... the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me. View quote
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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. View quote
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You can't stop us on the road to freedom You can't stop us 'cause our eyes can see Men with insight, men in granite Knights in armor intent on chivalry. View quote
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Well it's a marvellous night for a moondance, With the stars up above in your eyes. A fantabulous night to make romance, 'Neath the cover of October skies. View quote
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I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change. View quote
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music. View quote
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For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls. View quote
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. View quote
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The future is keeping you out of the present time. (Van Morrison)
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity. View quote
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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. View quote
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Where I feel this has cost me is in the personality situation, where you're expected to be a personality. You not only have to write and record, but you have to go out and sell it. Well, I'm not a salesman, and I'm very bad at selling things. If I had to do that for a living, I'd probably be completely broke. I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change. View quote
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Oh don't it get you Get you when you're through Feel the breezes blowing all around your coat Oh don't it get you When you gotta roam Hear the children singing My daddy's coming home. View quote
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