Quotes by Ray Manzarek - Page 1

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Circus
Rocks
Today
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I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Piano
Player
Poor
Thinking
Piano Player
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The Doors really were a band of potheads.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Band
Doors
Potheads
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The Doors were never that good as musicians.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Doors
Musicians
The Doors
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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Foremost
Jim
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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Moments
Planets
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To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Darkness
Half
Soul
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The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
America
Doors
Lying
Lies
Pack
The Doors
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One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Great Gifts
Humans
Oneness
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The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Opportunity
Men
Names
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I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Artistic
Dollars
Erotic
Intellectual
Million Dollars
Low-Budget
Soundtrack
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If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Men
Black
Jazz
Rocks
Africa
Beat
Rhythms
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The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
God
Inspirational
Life
Good
Grandchildren
Plant
Tree
Trombone
Eat
Now
Thing
Free
Only
Cone
Matters
Small
Slide
The Only Thing
Ultimately
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You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Doors
Rocks
Watches
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When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Greed
Ideas
Mad
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Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Abandon
Existed
Jim
Spoken
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Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Drug
Psychedelic
Recreation
Universe
Used
Touch
Although
Powers
Psychedelics
Ultimately
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I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Done
Poetry And Music
Thinking
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Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Men
Charm
Fabulous
Filled
Loaded
Racing
Wit
Years
Alan
Constantly
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The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Band
Centre
Doors
Successful
Figure
Figurehead
Jim
Same Thing
Spokesman
The Doors
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We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Airplane
Cold
Grace
Hug
Slick
Danced
Dressing
Dressing Room
Hugging
Jefferson
Jim
Passed
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I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Jazz
Pianist
Piano
Player
Poor
Thinking
Admit
Basically
Be The First
Cocktail
Piano Player
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I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Clarity
Firsts
Profound
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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Creative
Impulse
Mankind
Psychedelic
Spirit
Substance
Touch
Beyond
Exist
Planet
Spirits
Substances
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You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Alive
Fun
Joy
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Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Doors
People
Simple
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You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
Ray Manzarek / Musician
Inspirational
Love
Believe
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