Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.
Van MorrisonYou can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van MorrisonSpiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
Van MorrisonDid you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.
Van MorrisonYou learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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.
Van Morrison