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Van Morrison [1945-0] British

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Sir George Ivan Morrison, OBE, known as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter with a reputation for being at once stubborn, idiosyncratic, and sublime.

Famous, Beauty, Change, Future, Imagination, Morning, Music, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.		101
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.		102
The future is keeping you out of the present time.	Future, Time	103
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!		104
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.	Change, Music	105
Hearing the blues changed my life.		106
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.	Beauty	107
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.		108
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.		109
What you see is what you get.		110
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.		111
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.		112
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.		113
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.		114
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.		115
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.		116
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.	Famous, Morning	117
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.		118
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.		119
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.		120
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.		121
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.		122
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.	Famous	123
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.		124
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.		125
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.		126
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.		201
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.		202
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.		203
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.		204
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.		205
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.		206
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.	Imagination	207
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.	Famous	208
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.		209
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.		210
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.		211
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.		212
I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.		213
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.		214
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.		215
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.		216
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.		217
I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.		218
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.		219
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.		220
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.		221
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.		222
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.		223
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.		224
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.		225
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.		226
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.		301

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