Quote

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

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
Rock
Rocks
Daddy
School
Mythology
Transition
Roll
Period
Cool
Periods

More quotes by 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
What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.
Van Morrison
Image
I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.
Van Morrison
Image
[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.
Van Morrison
Image
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
Van Morrison
Image
What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
Van Morrison
Image
When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.
Van Morrison
Image
I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.
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
Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.
Van Morrison
Image
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
Image
I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
Van Morrison
Image
Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.
Van Morrison
Image
Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.
Van Morrison
Image
Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
Van Morrison
Image
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
Image
I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.
Van Morrison
Image
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
Image
Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
Van Morrison
Image
You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
Van Morrison