Van Morrison Quotes
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.
Morrison, Van. Interview by Cameron Crowe. "Van Morrison: The Return of the Belfast Cowboy." Rolling Stone, 19 May 1977.
Many Muslims see sex in almost everything Western. Arabs have traditionally seen themselves as superior to Blacks. The majority of the slaves purchased by Americans for transport to America to be sold were purchased from Arab Slave Traders. Saudi Arabia was the last nation to abolish slavery in the 1960 and most of the slaves were Black. Even in modern times the Muslim Arabs in Darfur were killing and ethnically cleansing Black Muslims of Sudan.
Qutb studied in America. He opposed the racial segregation of the time, but as this quote shows, his views were very racist. Islam has historically had an ambivalent view towards Blacks.
Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, he rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band, Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began in 1967, under the pop-hit orientated guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl". After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). Though this album eventually garnered praise, it was initially a poor seller.
