Van Morrison Quotes You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. ― Van Morrison 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. ― Van Morrison The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. ― Van Morrison Music is spiritual. The music business is not. ― Van Morrison I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous. ― Van Morrison Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it. ― Van Morrison Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. ― Van Morrison 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. ― Van Morrison