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
[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.
Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time...
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.