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
Van Morrison quotes about
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.