When 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 MorrisonWhen I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
Van MorrisonThese days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
Van MorrisonWhat was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.
Van Morrison