Quotes from Van Morrison

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.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

All the girls walk by dressed up for each otherAnd the boys do the boogie woogieOn the corner of the streetAnd the people passing by just stare in wild wonderAnd the inside jukebox roars just like thunder

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what's truly real.

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

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

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.

Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance With the stars up above in your eyes A fantabulous night to make romance 'Neath the cover of October skies And all the leaves on the trees are falling To the sound of the breezes that blow And I'm trying to please to the calling Of your heartstrings that play soft and low...

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. - Sweet Thing

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

Stepping lightly, just like a ballerina.

She's as sweet as tupelo honey, She's an angel of the first degree. - Tupelo Honey

I miss you so much, I can't stand it Feels like my heart is breaking in two My head says no, but my soul demands it And everything I do, reminds me of you

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what's truly real.

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

AND AS YOU'RE ABOUT TO LEAVE SHE JUMPS UP 'N SAYS 'THINK YOU FORGOT SOMETHING ITS YOUR, YOUR GLOVE AND THE LOVE THAT LOVES THE LOVE THAT LOVES THE LOVE THAT LOVES TO LOVE THE LOVE THAT LOVES TO LOVE THAT LOVES TO LOVE