Top 120 Van Morrison Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Singing is my profession – there is no plan B.”

— Van Morrison

52. “It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

54. “The blues – there’s no black and white – it’s the truth.”

— Van Morrison

55. “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

56. “My thinking musically has always been more advanced – it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.”

— Van Morrison

57. “I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.”

— Van Morrison

58. “I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.”

— Van Morrison

59. “Well I’ve got to get out of the rat-race now I’m tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That’s why I’m cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.”

— Van Morrison

60. “From the dark end of the street – To the bright side of the road – We’ll be lovers once again on the – Bright side of the road.”

— Van Morrison

61. “Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

63. “When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he’ll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There’s good and evil in everyone.”

— Van Morrison

64. “Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.”

— Van Morrison

65. “Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything’s an illusion And nothing is real.”

— Van Morrison

66. “Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.”

— Van Morrison

67. “Love of the simple is all that I need, I’ve no time for schism or lovers of greed.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

69. “There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.”

— Van Morrison

70. “When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.”

— Van Morrison

71. “You know what they’re writing about Baby you know what they’re writing about It’s a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

73. “Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.”

— Van Morrison

74. “I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn’t mean anything to me.”

— Van Morrison

75. “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.”

— Van Morrison

76. “In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.”

— Van Morrison

77. “I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.”

— Van Morrison

78. “It’s all complete instinct and intuition, and that’s extremely difficult to teach.”

— Van Morrison

79. “I’ve got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.”

— Van Morrison

80. “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.”

— Van Morrison

81. “As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.”

— Van Morrison

82. “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

83. “A fantabulous night to make romance.”

— Van Morrison

84. “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.”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

86. “I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it’s me.”

— Van Morrison

87. “When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.”

— Van Morrison

88. “Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.”

— Van Morrison

89. “I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative.”

— Van Morrison

90. “I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That’s what I apply to everything.”

— Van Morrison

91. “The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.”

— Van Morrison

92. “I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn’t there before that.”

— Van Morrison

93. “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!”

— Van Morrison

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

— Van Morrison

95. “I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.”

— Van Morrison

96. “I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.”

— Van Morrison

97. “Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.”

— Van Morrison

98. “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

99. “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.”

— Van Morrison

100. “It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.”

— Van Morrison