Van Morrison Quotes - Page 2

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

Don't lose the wonder in your eyes It's right there when you smile... If we go back, for a while Let me go back, for a while To that magic time

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

The wild night is calling.

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

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.