Ray Manzarek Quotes

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.

Ray Manzarek The Doors

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• I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Bands
  • Split Up

• I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rock

• Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

  

  Little Richard
  • Time
  • Music
  • God

• Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

  

  Rick Astley
  • School
  • Days
  • Bands

• If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Stupid

• I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

  

  April Winchell
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Bands

• People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Art
  • Rock

• The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Job
  • Death

• I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Wish
  • Rock
  • Trouble

• Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Rock
  • Rock N Roll
  • Hall of Fame

• Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Freedom
  • Rock
  • Rock N Roll

• Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Rock N Roll

• This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Bands
  • Freed
  • Servile

• Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

  

  Bono U2
  • Kiss
  • Rock N Roll
  • Wrapping

• I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Opportunities
  • Life is
  • Bands

• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Bands

• Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Progression

• Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Views
  • Rock N Roll
  • Entertain

• Rock n roll is like a circus today.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Today
  • Rock N Roll
  • Circus

• The key to longevity? Maybe putting an album out every four years - people don't get bored of you! No, just joking. I think, not taking yourself too seriously. You've got to have a sense of humor. You have to be strong-willed to put up with all the bullshit that goes with the job. You've got to consistently write good songs, and have the right rock-n-roll attitude. The Stones are a perfect example. If we could last that long, I'd be very happy.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Key

• For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

  

  Bono U2
  • Lost
  • Moment
  • Accurate

• 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.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll
  • Showman