If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?
Van MorrisonI learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
Van MorrisonLet go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.
Van MorrisonThe 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 MorrisonI wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.
Van MorrisonI write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Van Morrison