Van Morrison Music Quotations

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

That'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.

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.

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.