Van Morrison Quotes
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[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.
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J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
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I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
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Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
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When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.
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If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
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I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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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.
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No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
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When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.
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There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.
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Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
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The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.
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I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.
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The way I was singing the songs was jazz
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What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.
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The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.
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I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.
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The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
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Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
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