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 Hearing the blues changed my life. Van Morrison changed-my-life hearing changed I don't think nostalgia has to be negative. Van Morrison nostalgia negative thinking I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. Van Morrison understood jazz Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me. Van Morrison sadness suffering art At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. Van Morrison religious giving religion 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 writing song jobs 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 rays way firsts 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 rocks people thinking 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 spoons silver moon You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. Van Morrison bits knows 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 together play song 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 touring swimming reading 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 listening say-anything people [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 type existential philosophy It's a marvelous night for a moondance! Van Morrison marvelous night I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife. Van Morrison strife trouble relationship 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 performing albums roots The way I was singing the songs was jazz Van Morrison singing song way 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 rocks responsibility natural Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child. Van Morrison your-smile country children
