Top 53 Quotes by Van Morrison

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

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.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

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

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

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.