Van Morrison Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

“Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.”

“Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.”

“When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.”

“I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.”

“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.”

“As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.”

“I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.”

“I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.”