Van Morrison
Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison, OBEis a Northern Irish singer, songwriter and musician. He has received six Grammy Awards, the 1994 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2016 he was knighted for his musical achievements and his services to tourism and charitable causes in Northern Ireland...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth31 August 1945
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
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.
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.
The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.
From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.