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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/jim-as-just-a-spoken-poet-was-not-that-good-he-needed-the-music/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

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## More by Ray Manzarek

> [Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/rock-n-roll-is-like-a-circus-today/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/time-is-just-a-moment-that-we-occupy-in-this-brief-spin-around-the/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/through-all-of-history-mankind-has-ingested-psychedelic-substances/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/you-want-a-showman-go-see-rock-n-roll-bands-today-you-want-to-have-a/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/one-of-the-great-gifts-of-being-a-human-being-is-that-you-can-get-rid/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/we-went-on-stage-with-the-jefferson-airplane-jim-started-singing-with/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/you-have-to-be-open-to-the-energy-if-you-can-open-your-heart-to-the/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/i-need-three-million-dollars-to-make-a-low-budget-intellectual/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [I think I'm a very poor piano player.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/i-think-i-m-a-very-poor-piano-player/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/doors-music-is-not-a-simple-kind-of-music-it-s-like-the-bauhaus-it-s/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/jim-wanted-to-be-known-as-a-poet-first-and-foremost/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/movies-were-very-important-the-art-form-of-the-20th-century/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/i-thought-we-were-gonna-open-up-the-world-of-poetry-and-music-to-all/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [The Doors really were a band of potheads.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/the-doors-really-were-a-band-of-potheads/)

[Ray Manzarek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-manzarek/)

> [The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-manzarek/the-doors-were-successful-it-was-jim-morrison-as-the-centre-and-the/)

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