Top 53 Quotes by Van Morrison

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.