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.
Van Morrison

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
Van Morrison

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

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
Van Morrison

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

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Van Morrison

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
Van Morrison

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
Van Morrison

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
Van Morrison

The future is keeping you out of the present time.
Van Morrison

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
Van Morrison

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
Van Morrison

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
Van Morrison

What you see is what you get.
Van Morrison

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.
Van Morrison

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.
Van Morrison