Van Morrison Quotes - Page 4

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• Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Sadness, Suffering

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• I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

  Van Morrison

  Rays, Way, Firsts

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

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• I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

  Van Morrison

  People, Listening, Say Anything

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

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• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  Van Morrison

  Taken, Media, Long

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• 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

  Roots, Albums, Performing

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

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• [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

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• 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

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• 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

  Rocks, Want, Singers

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• I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.

  Van Morrison

  Friendship, Hey, Cry

  Song: Sweet Thing, Album: Astral Weeks

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• I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.

  Van Morrison

  Years, People, Track

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

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• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  Van Morrison

  Essence, Names, Beats

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• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

  Van Morrison

  Music, Stay Strong, Stay Positive

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• 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.

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• I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

  Van Morrison

  Careers, Musical, Looks

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

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• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  Van Morrison

  Music, Goes On, Jazz

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• And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

  Van Morrison

  Rain, Ocean, Garden

  Song: Sweet Thing, Album: Astral Weeks

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• 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

  Trying, Energy, Different

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

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• Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Ambition, Rivers

  Song: I'm Tired Joey Boy

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• Hearing the blues changed my life.

  Van Morrison

  Hearing, Changed, Changed My Life

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• I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.

  Van Morrison

  Nice, Guy, Nice Guy

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• 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

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• Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

  Van Morrison

  Country, Elements, Western Music

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• I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture.

  Van Morrison

  Country, Talking, Years

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

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• I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Hills, Minutes

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

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• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

  Van Morrison

  Motivational Sports, Winning, Order

  Song: Hard Nose the Highway, Album: Hard Nose the Highway

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