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All Quotes by author - Ray Manzarek
" 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. "
Man
Mind
Racing
" 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. "
Touch
You
Point
" 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. "
Would
Africa
Beat
" 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. "
Think
Kind
Jazz
" I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack. "
Great
Movie
Intellectual
" I think I'm a very poor piano player. "
Player
Poor
Think
" 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. "
World
Music
Poetry
" 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. "
Security
Behind
Good
" Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost. "
Jim
Known
Poet
" Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century. "
Century
Important
Movies
" Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today. "
Roll
Today
Circus
" The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth. "
Money
You
Doors
" The Doors were never that good as musicians. "
Musicians
Never
Were
" 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. "
Same
Successful
Were
" 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. "
Inspirational
Small
God
" 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. "
Yourself
Touch
You
" 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. "
Grace
Stage
Singing
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