Van Morrison: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it.”

Van Morrison

Take It Where You Find It
Song lyrics, Wavelength (1978)

Men , Books , Star , Sea

“And when that foghorn blows,
I will be coming home,
When that foghorn blows,
I wanna hear it, I don't have to fear it,
And I wanna rock your gypsy soul,
Just like way back in the days of old,
And magnificently we will fold
Into the mystic.”

Van Morrison

Into the Mystic
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

Fear , Way , Home , Soul

“Come here my love
And I will lift my spirits high for you
I'd like to fly away and spend a day or two
Just contemplating the fields and leaves and talking about nothing
Just layin' down in shades of effervescent, effervescent odors
And shades of time and tide.”

Van Morrison

Come Here My Love
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

Love , Time , Flying

“I look at the side of your face as the sunlight comes
Streaming through the window in the autumn sunshine
And all the time going to Coney Island I'm thinking,
Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all the time.”

Van Morrison

Coney Island
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

Autumn , Thinking , Time

“The warm look of radiance on your face
And your heart beating close to mine
And the evening fading in the candle glow
This must be what it's all about
Oh this must be what it's all about
This must be what paradise is like
So quiet in here. So peaceful in here
So quiet in here, yeah, so peaceful in here.”

Van Morrison

So Quiet In Here
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)

Peace , Heart

“When a man comes through
He must do what he's supposed to do
When a man comes through.
He can't do what everyone expects him to.”

Van Morrison

A New Kind of Man
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)

“Put your money where your mouth is
Then we can get something going
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime
And leave one or two cards showing.”

Van Morrison

Hard Nose the Highway
Song lyrics, Hard Nose the Highway (1973)

Money

“When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me,
To feel like me.”

Van Morrison

Ivory Tower
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)

Feeling

“Fair play to you,
Kilarney's lakes are so blue,
And the architecture I'm taking in with my mind,
So fine.”

Van Morrison

Fair Play
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

“And I shall search my soul,
I shall search my very soul,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion,
For the lion inside me.”

Van Morrison

Listen to the Lion
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)

Soul , Search

“No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father and the
Son and the Holy Ghost
In the garden wet with rain.”

Van Morrison

In the Garden
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)

Nature , Teachers

“I don't think I will ever mellow out. I think if you mellow out, you get eaten up. You become like a commodity. So I don't think I will mellow out. It is not in my blood.”

Van Morrison

An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

Thinking

“And there's only one man knows way to go,
And we say 'Geronimo.”

Van Morrison

Fair Play
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)

Way

“Waiting for the sun to shine
And you know sometimes it gets so painful
Just like talking to yourself
When everything don't seem to have no rhyme or reason we all go
Do do loo do do, do do loo do do
Waiting for the sun to shine.”

Van Morrison

(Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball
Song lyrics, Tupelo Honey (1971)

Pain , Waiting , Sun

“Someone to hold onto
And keep me from all fear
Someone to be my guiding light
And keep me ever dear
To keep me from my selfishness
To keep me from my sorrow
To lead me on to givingness
So I can see a new tomorrow.”

Van Morrison

If I Ever Needed Someone
Song lyrics, His Band and the Street Choir (1970)

Fear , Light , Selfishness

“I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.”

Van Morrison

An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)

Music , Star

“When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now…I was very young and i followed something.”

Van Morrison

1993
As quoted in Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography (2003) by Clinton Heylin

Life , People

“Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there's no one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles, that's what you do.”

Van Morrison

Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)

love , Cute , Romantic , For Her

“Why did you leave America?
Why did you let me down?
And now that things seem better off,
Why do you come around?
You know I just can't see you now
In my new world crystal ball.
You know I just can't free you now,
That's not my job at all.”

Van Morrison

Street Choir
Song lyrics, His Band and the Street Choir (1970)

World

“And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like Jelly Roll
And it stoned me
And it stoned me to my soul
Stoned me just like goin' home.
And it stoned me.”

Van Morrison

And It Stoned Me
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)

Home , Soul