1. “I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.” – Van Morrison
2. “See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.” – Van Morrison
3. “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
4. “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
5. “Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.” – Van Morrison
6. “Stepping lightly, just like a ballerina.” – Van Morrison
7. “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
8. “Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.” – Van Morrison
9. “The wild night is calling.” – Van Morrison
10. “It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.” – Van Morrison
11. “Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.” – Van Morrison
12. “If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.” – Van Morrison
13. “It’s a marvelous night for a moondance!” – Van Morrison
14. “The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.” – Van Morrison
15. “I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn’t mean anything to me.” – Van Morrison
16. “I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.” – Van Morrison
17. “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
18. “Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are.” – Van Morrison
19. “If it’s what you do and you can do it, then you do it.” – Van Morrison
20. “Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything’s an illusion And nothing is real.” – Van Morrison
21. “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.” – Van Morrison
22. “Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.” – Van Morrison
23. “You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.” – Van Morrison
24. “Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.” – Van Morrison
25. “You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.” – Van Morrison
26. “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
27. “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
28. “Singing is my profession – there is no plan B.” – Van Morrison
29. “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
30. “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.” – Van Morrison
31. “When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.” – Van Morrison
32. “This Hollywood ain’t no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.” – Van Morrison
33. “Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.” – Van Morrison
34. “You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay…” – Van Morrison
35. “It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.” – Van Morrison
36. “You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.” – Van Morrison
37. “In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.” – Van Morrison
38. “I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That’s what I apply to everything.” – Van Morrison
39. “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.” – Van Morrison
40. “If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.” – Van Morrison
41. “The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.” – Van Morrison
42. “The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.” – Van Morrison
43. “No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.” – Van Morrison
44. “Enlightenment, don’t know what it is. It’s up to you, the way you think.” – Van Morrison
45. “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
46. “Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.” – Van Morrison
47. “A fantabulous night to make romance.” – Van Morrison
48. “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
49. “The blues – there’s no black and white – it’s the truth.” – Van Morrison
50. “Every performance is different. That’s the beauty of it.” – Van Morrison
51. “I just wanna get on with the show.” – Van Morrison
52. “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
53. “I’m a dweller of the threshold and I’m waiting at the door, and I’m standing in the darkness, I don’t want to wait no more.” – Van Morrison
54. “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
55. “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
56. “Smell the sea and feel the sky.” – Van Morrison
57. “Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.” – Van Morrison
58. “Love of the simple is all that I need, I’ve no time for schism or lovers of greed.” – Van Morrison
59. “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
60. “In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.” – Van Morrison
61. “Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied.” – Van Morrison
62. “You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.” – Van Morrison
63. “In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.” – Van Morrison
64. “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
65. “Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there’s no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that’s what you do.” – Van Morrison
66. “I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative.” – Van Morrison
67. “I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.” – Van Morrison
68. “The future is keeping you out of the present time.” – Van Morrison
69. “Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison
70. “At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.” – Van Morrison
71. “I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn’t there before that.” – Van Morrison
72. “Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.” – Van Morrison
73. “Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.” – Van Morrison
74. “I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.” – Van Morrison
75. “When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.” – Van Morrison
76. “If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what’s truly real.” – Van Morrison
77. “My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that’s what I’m doing.” – Van Morrison
78. “Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I’ll stand beside you, Beside you, child.” – Van Morrison
79. “Don’t want to discuss it, I think it’s time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I’m strange In that case I’ll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.” – Van Morrison
80. “Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.” – Van Morrison
81. “Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.” – Van Morrison
82. “I’m a working man in my prime cleaning windows.” – Van Morrison
83. “Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.” – Van Morrison
84. “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.” – Van Morrison
85. “I educated myself. To me, school was boring.” – Van Morrison
86. “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.” – Van Morrison
87. “I’ve got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.” – Van Morrison
88. “Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?” – Van Morrison
89. “My thinking musically has always been more advanced – it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.” – Van Morrison
90. “Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.” – Van Morrison
91. “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.” – Van Morrison