Rocks Quotes - Page 16

• 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

  Country, Looks, Stuff

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Trying

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

  Van Morrison

  Rock N Roll, Spirit, Primitive

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, People, Intellectual

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• 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 you have to start analyzing it.

  Van Morrison

  Analyzing, Rock N Roll, Connecting

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

  Van Morrison

  Mean, Play, Musician

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

  Van Morrison

  Water, Done, Rock N Roll

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rivers, Jazz

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• 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 grab me.

  Van Morrison

  Sound, Jazz

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.

  Van Morrison

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• 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 doesn't fit.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Talking, Elements

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• 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 can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

  Van Morrison

  New York, Mean, Groups

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

  Van Morrison

  Reading, Night, Way

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• 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

  Drinking, Wine, Marijuana

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

  Van Morrison

  Responsibility, Natural, Pops

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

  Van Morrison

  Rock N Roll, I Can

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, People, Rock N Roll

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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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.

  Van Morrison

  Art, House, Way

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• [Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

  Van Morrison

  Couple, Cat, Rivers

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

  Van Morrison

  School, Daddy, Transition

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Writing, Thinking, Sgt Pepper

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• How many times can a rock star go over the top on drugs? How many times can a rock star be unfaithful to his old lady? It is really fu**ing boring, and that is what they do over and over and over. They just print the same sh*t.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Stars, Drug, Unfaithful

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Long, Musician, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.

  Sarah Harmer

  Thinking, Night, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Gord [Downie] does so much Waterkeeper stuff. They were involved in [protesting clearcuts at] Clayoquot Sound [in the early '90s]. It's hard sometimes to use the capital you have as a beloved rock band and put it to various causes, especially when they're a bit more controversial, like energy issues.

  Sarah Harmer

  Issues, Causes, Energy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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