Beats Quote by Van Morrison

“Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.”

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The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

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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…

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I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I…

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It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and…

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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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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…

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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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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…

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At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

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