Creativity Quote by Van Morrison

Van Morrison’s line has the blunt, circular logic of a backstage mantra: no myth-making, no “follow your dreams,” just the unsentimental mechanics of vocation. “If it’s what you do” isn’t a motivational poster; it’s an identity claim. Doing the thing isn’t a choice you debate at the kitchen table, it’s the default setting. The second clause, “and you can do it,” drags talent and capacity into the frame, a quiet rebuke to the romantic idea that desire alone earns an audience. Then comes the hammer: “then you do it.” No permission, no explanation, no performance of struggle for public consumption.

It works because it’s tautological in a way that mirrors how artistry can feel from the inside: the work justifies itself by being done. Morrison’s career context sharpens the subtext. He’s long cultivated the image of the hard-to-please craftsman, distrustful of industry gloss, allergic to trend-chasing. Read that way, the quote is a defense of stubborn continuity: you keep showing up to the song, the studio, the stage, because that’s the job and it’s yours.

There’s also a steely little moral hidden in the plain talk. If you can do it, do it; if you can’t, stop dressing incapacity up as principle. It’s a worldview that prizes competence over commentary, making creativity less a lifestyle and more a practice: repeatable, disciplined, occasionally joyless, and still the only honest option.