Van Morrison Quotes
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
Quotes to Explore
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.
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I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.
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The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
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You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
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If a developer wants to sell something via an iPad app - it's called an 'in-app purchase' - the transaction must go through Apple, which keeps 30 percent of the money and passes 70 percent on to the developer.
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That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
