Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. — 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
Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires… — 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
Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against… — 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
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music… — 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
![“We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/978/van-morrison-1192_feels_we-re-with-robbie-robertson-jazz-musicia_376618.jpg)
![“[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e4/van-morrison-1192_art_rock-n-roll-is-still-a-primitive-form-an_465023.jpg)
![“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. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you…” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a21/van-morrison-1192_aspect_i-d-much-prefer-to-hear-somebody-like-ed_71729.jpg)
