I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance With the stars up above in your eyes... And I'm trying to please to… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image