Ray Manzarek Quotes

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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…
• Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
• The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.
• 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.
• To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
• I think I'm a very poor piano player.
• 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.
• 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…

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