I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock,… — 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… — 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're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — 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
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
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or… — 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
When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing. — 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
I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't… — 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
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold… — 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
My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is… — 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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