Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz. Van Morrison More Quotes by Van Morrison More Quotes From Van Morrison Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner. Van Morrison ambition dream rivers Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today. Van Morrison christian dark night In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. Van Morrison motivational-sports winning order 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. Van Morrison teenager alcohol people When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something. Van Morrison marijuana wine drinking Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same. Van Morrison britain courses When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig. Van Morrison car band drinking I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish. Van Morrison growing-up responsibility thinking I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture. Van Morrison talking country years I think intellectualization is what's killing most people. Van Morrison killing people thinking There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that. Van Morrison together writing song A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images. Van Morrison together song I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that. Van Morrison intellectual stuff philosophy 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. Van Morrison kind reading night What I really like to do is just do the twist! Van Morrison twists It's not that big a mystery about types. It's not even that big a mystery why so many people are picking up on things now. It's like we were talking about the primitive thing before and all that. Nothing has really changed much. The things that have changed are like we're on the noon now. There are more buildings now. But we're still basically two monkeys sitting here. Van Morrison talking two people There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time. Van Morrison realization 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. Van Morrison hills minutes thinking 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 together song talking It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like. Van Morrison like-something vision heard
