Van Morrison

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

“The rock and roll hall of fame is a joke.”

“A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me.”

“Jazz and blues are my first loves.”

“I think the thing about the records is that they're a snapshot of a period of time.”

“I don't think you should be singing songs that you've outgrown.”

“I'm a performer. I've been performing since I was a teenager.”

“My music is not for the masses. It's for the people who want to listen.”

“I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out in my music.”

“The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation with the person who's in my head.”

“The music should speak for itself.”

“For me, it's a spiritual thing. That's the way I look at it.”

“It's a journey. You never arrive.”

“I'm not a rock star. I'm a singer-songwriter.”

“Basically, I'm a blues singer. That's it.”

“I get very little inspiration from anything that's happening in the music business.”

“I dig my own trenches.”

“I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings about anything.”

“Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul.”

“You don't know what you're going to get. That's the magic.”