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
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.
Men come, men go, all things remain in God.
The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
Smell the sea and feel the sky.
A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.
You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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!
There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.
Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.
I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.