Van Morrison Quotes
Born: August 31, 1945
Van Morrison, the Belfast-born bard of the soul, has spent over five decades translating the ineffable into music. His legacy is not merely a catalog of songs but a spiritual roadmap, where the search for inner stillness and transcendent peace is the central pilgrimage. A master of the quiet epiphany, his work dissolves the noise of the world, inviting listeners into a sacred space of reflection. His quotes resonate because they speak a universal truth: that peace is not a destination, but a whispered frequency found in the spaces between the notes, the breath, and the dawn.
Van Morrison Quotes (54)
"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
— Van Morrison"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
— Van Morrison"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
— 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"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
— Van Morrison"Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach."
— Van Morrison"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
— Van Morrison"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
— Van Morrison"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
— Van Morrison"If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it."
— 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."
— Van Morrison"The future is keeping you out of the present time."
— 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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
— 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"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
— Van Morrison"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
— Van Morrison"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."
— 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"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."
— Van Morrison"Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it."
— Van Morrison"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."
— Van Morrison"What you see is what you get."
— Van Morrison"You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs."
— Van Morrison"Singing is my profession - there is no plan B."
— Van Morrison"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"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
— Van Morrison"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
— 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'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."
— Van Morrison