Top 120 Van Morrison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Van Morrison

2. “Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there’s no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that’s what you do.”

— Van Morrison

3. “If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.”

— Van Morrison

4. “You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...”

— Van Morrison

5. “Smell the sea and feel the sky.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

7. “These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there’s only future, there’s only here, there’s only now.”

— Van Morrison

8. “Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are.”

— Van Morrison

9. “Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”

— Van Morrison

10. “Let your soul and spirit fly.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

13. “I’m a dweller of the threshold and I’m waiting at the door, and I’m standing in the darkness, I don’t want to wait no more.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

15. “The wild night is calling.”

— Van Morrison

16. “I educated myself. To me, school was boring.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

18. “When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.”

— Van Morrison

19. “You can’t stop us on the road to freedom, you can’t stop us cause our eyes can see.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

21. “It’s a marvelous night for a moondance!”

— Van Morrison

22. “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

23. “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?”

— Van Morrison

24. “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.”

— Van Morrison

25. “At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.”

— Van Morrison

26. “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.”

— Van Morrison

27. “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

28. “I’m a working man in my prime cleaning windows.”

— Van Morrison

29. “You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.”

— Van Morrison

30. “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.”

— Van Morrison

31. “If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?”

— Van Morrison

32. “All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.”

— Van Morrison

33. “If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?”

— Van Morrison

34. “Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

36. “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.”

— Van Morrison

37. “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, and baby, all your dirt will turn into gold.”

— Van Morrison

38. “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.”

— Van Morrison

39. “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 about it.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

41. “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.”

— Van Morrison

42. “I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.”

— Van Morrison

43. “Enlightenment, don’t know what it is. It’s up to you, the way you think.”

— Van Morrison

44. “If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.”

— Van Morrison

45. “Every performance is different. That’s the beauty of it.”

— Van Morrison

46. “Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

— Van Morrison

47. “Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I’ll stand beside you, Beside you, child.”

— Van Morrison

48. “Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.”

— Van Morrison

49. “I’m very lucky, I’m happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don’t have any regrets whatsoever.”

— Van Morrison

50. “Hearing the blues changed my life.”

— Van Morrison