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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.
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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.
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I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.
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People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.
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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.
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I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
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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.
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Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.
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I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
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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.
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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.
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Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.
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It is only by long and laborious study, and by the comparison of a number of individuals, that it will be possible to succeed in establishing correct average proportions each age, and in settling the limits betwixt they can be made to vary, without ceasing to be accurate and faithful to nature—our first and guide in this difficult study.
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The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.
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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 watch The Doors.
