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Ray Manzarek

(1939–2013) Director United States

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Ray Manzarek was a director from the United States, best known for Light My Fire.

Quick Facts About Ray Manzarek

Born: February 12, 1939
Died: May 20, 2013
Nationality: United States
Profession: Director
Notable works: Light My Fire
Spouse: Dorothy Manzarek

About Ray Manzarek

Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. was an American keyboardist, vocalist, and music producer. He is best known as a member of the rock band the Doors, co-founding the group in 1965 with fellow UCLA Film School graduate Jim Morrison. Manzarek is credited for his innovative playing and abilities on organ-style keyboard instruments.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Quotes by Ray Manzarek

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

Circus

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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

Moments

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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…

Creative

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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…

Band

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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…

Great gifts

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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…

Airplane

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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…

Believe

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I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

Artistic

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I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Piano

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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.…

Clean

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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

First

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Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

20th century

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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…

All kinds

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The Doors really were a band of potheads.

Band

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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…

Band

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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…

Clarity

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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,…

Chess

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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…

Alive

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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…

Beats

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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.…

Cocktails

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The Doors were never that good as musicians.

Doors

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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…

Drug

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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…

Abandon

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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…

Alive

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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…

America

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