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
In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
Hearing the blues changed my life.
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.
[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.