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52 quotes by Van Morrison

George Ivan "Van" Morrison, OBE (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are described as mystical and transcendental, while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are critically acclaimed. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the...
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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.

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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

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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.

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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

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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.

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

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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... →

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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

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

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The future is keeping you out of the present time.

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

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