Jazz Quote by Van Morrison

“I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.”

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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 can snap your fingers to it and…

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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…

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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

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You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...

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I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

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