Van Morrison /Dzhordzh Ajven/ quotes Born: 08/31/1945 Country: ireland

• 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) [being]
• Music is spiritual. The music business is not. (Van Morrison) [music/music/business]
• In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing. (Van Morrison) [order/gambler]
• 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)
• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. (Van Morrison)
• 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)
• Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. (Van Morrison)
• Hearing the blues changed my life. (Van Morrison)
• I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out. (Van Morrison)
• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. (Van Morrison)
• 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)
• I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. (Van Morrison)
• I educated myself. To me, school was boring. (Van Morrison)
• I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity. (Van Morrison)
• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. (Van Morrison)
• I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game. (Van Morrison)
• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. (Van Morrison)
• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. (Van Morrison)
• I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. (Van Morrison)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. (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)
• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. (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)
• Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. (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)

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