'He was small and gloomy. With more black energy than he knew what to do with.' Greil Marcus on Van Morrison
'For a man so signally unfortunate in the male beauty stakes - when he had hair, it was red and curly, he was pudgy and had a pot belly, and he was very short and bore an unfortunate resemblance to the comedian Charlie Drake - Morrison has managed to attract a fair share of very beautiful women to share parts of his life.' The Irish Independent
1. 'You can't stay the same. If you're a singer and a musician that's the way it works.'
2. 'These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.'
3. 'If that's what you do and you can do it then you do it.'
4. 'Music is spiritual. The music business is not.'
5.'Hearing the blues changed my life.'
6. 'I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.'
7.'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.'
8.'I understand jazz. I understood how it worked. That's what I applied to everything.'
9. ' I was never a hippie. A lot of people think you're a hippie because of long hair and a beard . . . I had long hair and a beard because where I lived it was extremely cold. Why are you laughing? I never had it in the summer.'
10. I learned... you never sang a song the same way twice.'
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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