What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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![“[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e4/van-morrison-1192_art_rock-n-roll-is-still-a-primitive-form-an_465023.jpg)
![“I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you…” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a21/van-morrison-1192_aspect_i-d-much-prefer-to-hear-somebody-like-ed_71729.jpg)
