Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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  Tags in Rhythms, Jazz, Created

• 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.

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  Tags in Drug, Recreation

• I think I’m a very poor piano player.

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  Tags in Poor, Pianist

• 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.

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  Tags in Poet, Security, Sense

• 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.

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  Tags in Pianist, Player, Think

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

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  Tags in Poet, Jim, Foremost

• 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.

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  Tags in Poetry, Music

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

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Movie, Century

• The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

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  Topics in Money, Truth

  Tags in Movie

• The Doors were never that good as musicians.

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• Rock ‘n’ roll is like a circus today.

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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.

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  Tags in Successful, Figure, Band

• 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.

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  Topics in History

  Tags in Spirits, Creator, Planet

• 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.

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  Tags in Singing, Grace, Slick, Dance

• 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.

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  Tags in Matters, Ice Cream, Eat

Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr (17)

Birth:	12th February, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Filmmaker, Musician, Lyricist

About

Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., known as Ray Manzarek, is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, and co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, Nite City from 1977–1978 and Manzarek-Krieger since 2001.

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