See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
Van MorrisonThat's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.
Van MorrisonSkiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van MorrisonSometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.
Van MorrisonWhen I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
Van MorrisonI like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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