I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about. Van Morrison More Quotes by Van Morrison More Quotes From Van Morrison Hearing the blues changed my life. Van Morrison changed-my-lifehearingchanged I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. Van Morrison nostalgianegativethinking I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. Van Morrison understoodjazz Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. Van Morrison sadnesssufferingart At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. Van Morrison religiousgivingreligion I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. Van Morrison writingsongjobs I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression. Van Morrison rayswayfirsts We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people. Van Morrison rockspeoplethinking 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 spoonssilvermoon You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. Van Morrison bitsknows If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over. Van Morrison togetherplaysong I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time. Van Morrison touringswimmingreading I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people. Van Morrison listeningsay-anythingpeople [Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing. Van Morrison typeexistentialphilosophy It's a marvelous night for a moondance! Van Morrison marvelousnight I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife. Van Morrison strifetroublerelationship When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album. Van Morrison performingalbumsroots The way I was singing the songs was jazz Van Morrison singingsongway You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see. Van Morrison causeseyeinspirational My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural. Van Morrison rocksresponsibilitynatural
