I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together. Van Morrison More Quotes by Van Morrison More Quotes From Van Morrison 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. Van Morrison tunesplaymean I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll. Van Morrison rock-n-rollrocksi-can My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then. Van Morrison bagsmilkmean I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say. Van Morrison boredwritingsong I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it. Van Morrison evolutionwantedtrying I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place. Van Morrison musicalcareerslooks Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip. Van Morrison rockscareerstaken I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record. Van Morrison recordsperiodswanted I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing. Van Morrison transitionperspectivetrying I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music. Van Morrison playing-musicbandyears The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12. Van Morrison transitionlongideas I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage. Van Morrison recordsfittingfound There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself. Van Morrison recordstogetherreality The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum. Van Morrison rockscountrylooks I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things. Van Morrison caught-upcaughtcertain It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it. Van Morrison bagssingersheart [Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing. Van Morrison rocksmusiciancutting Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz. Van Morrison styletryingtwo What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll. Van Morrison rocksstufffirsts I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years. Van Morrison trackpeopleyears
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