Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend. Van Morrison More Quotes by Van Morrison More Quotes From Van Morrison When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant. Van Morrison different energy trying The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture. Van Morrison rocks writing song Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand Van Morrison dream hands reality Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time. Van Morrison magic feelings time I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. Van Morrison contemporary attention mean I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. Van Morrison rocks singers want When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. Van Morrison separation distance people 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 belfast clubs firsts Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance Van Morrison stars eye heart I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me. Van Morrison hey cry friendship If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not. Van Morrison ifs mean When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things. Van Morrison spirit inspirational moving See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around. Van Morrison media men art Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. Van Morrison beats essence names My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. Van Morrison paper sometimes thinking This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood. Van Morrison entertainment media art I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. Van Morrison very-good criticism years 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 good-morning perception thinking 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 media taken long Singing is my profession - there is no plan B. Van Morrison plan-b plans singing