Van Morrison Quotations | Page 3

I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [ A Period of Transition ] is from the Daddy Cool school.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

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.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.