Top 53 Quotes by Van Morrison

What you see is what you get.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

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 do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

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

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.