Van Morrison Quotes
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.
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There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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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.
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Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
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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.
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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.
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I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
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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.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
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I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.