Top 266 Quotes & Sayings by Van Morrison - Page 2

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.

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.

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

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are

Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun...

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.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

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.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

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.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

A fantabulous night to make romance.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

The wild night is calling.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.

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.

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.

There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to the calling Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush... One more Moondance with you in the moonlight On a magic night

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

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.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

[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.

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.

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.