You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see. Van Morrison More Quotes by Van Morrison More Quotes From Van Morrison 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 age writing baby I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. Van Morrison music-industry rock-n-roll thinking For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls. Van Morrison clubs causes long 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 liking-someone people thinking My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. Van Morrison ambition play two And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain. Van Morrison garden ocean rain I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars. Van Morrison competition rocks stars 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 stay-positive stay-strong music 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 feel-good religious moving 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 sight sound philosophy You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived. Van Morrison real dream song Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me. Van Morrison wavelength albums firsts 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 light dark clouds Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones. Van Morrison care soul world Your street, rich street or poor Van Morrison pain heart moving 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 guitar writing song Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change Van Morrison worry may thinking 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 angel over-you night 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 tired clouds men Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real. Van Morrison enlightenment real dream
