I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say. Van Morrison More Quotes by Van Morrison More Quotes From Van Morrison If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically. Van Morrison introspective want giving Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. Van Morrison suits keys lows 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 spirit sometimes moving 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 glamour let-me men 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 safe-and-sound fun hands Way over on the railroad, Van Morrison glue together children 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 girl expression boys Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are Van Morrison hell believe people Going down the old mine with a transistor radio. Van Morrison transistors dense radio 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 waiting doors philosophy The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. Van Morrison jazz music goes-on You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. Van Morrison rhyming lines different As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. Van Morrison playing-music platforms musician 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 disappointing drag fame In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord. Van Morrison religious tree religion If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. Van Morrison you-can-do-it ifs can-do I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. Van Morrison armstrong song way 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 cracks steel dream Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music. Van Morrison western-music elements country I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. Van Morrison hate writing song