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
Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
The wild night is calling.
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
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.
It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.
Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...
If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.
I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun
Let your soul and spirit fly.