#it

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#child #children #community #i #need

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

#became #days #get #long #long time

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. ↗

— Van Morrison

#comfortable #doing #feel #hate #i

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

— Van Morrison

#back #belfast #blues #club #doing

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i do #i write #job #later #maybe

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

— Van Morrison

#you #you can do it

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over. ↗

— Van Morrison

#get #hit #just #need #over

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. ↗

— Van Morrison

#audiences #concerts #down #i #me

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach. ↗

— Van Morrison

#audiences #did #large #low-key #suit

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Van Morrison

#doing #gigs #i #out #play