Van Morrison

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the m ...

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

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club ...

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

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper some ...

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be ...

Let your soul and spirit fly.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offs ...

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

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

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.