Van Morrison Quotes - Page 7

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

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.

Your street, rich street or poor Used to always be sure, on your street There's a place in your heart you know from the start Can't be complete outside of the street Keep moving on through the joy and the pain Sometimes you got to look back To the street again Would you prefer all those castles in Spain? Or the view of your street from your window pane?

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

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.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

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.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

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

All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

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

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

I'm still basically the same as I always was. I still listen to the same people. That's where I'm coming from.

When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.