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 Quote

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
- Van Morrison Quote

Hearing the blues changed my life.
- Van Morrison Quote

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

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.
- Van Morrison Quote

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

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
- Van Morrison Quote

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
- Van Morrison Quote

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
- Van Morrison Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
- Van Morrison Quote

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

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
- Van Morrison Quote

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
- Van Morrison Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
- Van Morrison Quote