Quote

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

Van Morrison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Poet
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Belfast
Ireland
George Morrison
George Ivan Morrison
Sir George Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison
Van the Man
Anything
Periods
Wanted
Record
Come
Seem
Creatively
Nothing
Records
Tour
Really
Wasn
Definite
Time
Point
Period
Didn
Seems
Putting

More quotes by Van Morrison

Image
You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.
Van Morrison
Image
I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
Van Morrison
Image
When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
Van Morrison
Image
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
Van Morrison
Image
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
Image
Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
Van Morrison
Image
Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
Van Morrison
Image
[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.
Van Morrison
Image
Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
Van Morrison
Image
I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.
Van Morrison
Image
The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
Van Morrison
Image
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
Image
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison
Image
Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.
Van Morrison
Image
The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
Van Morrison
Image
Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
Van Morrison
Image
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.
Van Morrison
Image
[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
Van Morrison
Image
J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.
Van Morrison
Image
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
Van Morrison