There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
Van MorrisonMy thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Van MorrisonYou learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
Van MorrisonMy ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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 Morrison