Van Morrison Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  "The Words and Music of Van Morrison". Book by Erik Hage, 2009.

• 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. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. 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

  Spiritual, Song, Jobs

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

  Van Morrison

  Song, Way, Armstrong

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Singers, Separation

  "What's Wrong With This Picture?". Interview with Niall Stokes, www.hotpress.com. October 28, 2003.

• I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Bored

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Artist, Blow

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that. I found this Bo Carter record and he was just saying something about making it to the woods or something like that.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Character

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

• The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

• 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

  Song, Play, Way

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• [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

  Song, Survival, World

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

• [The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Home, Mean

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

• Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Book, Writing

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• 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

  Dream, Song, Cities

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

• 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

  Song, Play, Together

• The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Tired, Albums

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Talking, Together

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Piano, Trying

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

• The way I was singing the songs was jazz

  Van Morrison

  Song, Singing, Way

• 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

  Song, Simple, Trying

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Together

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• 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.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Interview with Dermot Stokes, Hot Press, March 1978.

• Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Ideas, Might

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

• A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Together

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

• You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Real

• If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Littles, Spirit

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com.

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