Top 53 Quotes by Van Morrison

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

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.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

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.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.