Ray Manzarek Quotes

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.

Ray Manzarek The Doors

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• But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Good
  • Team
  • Attention

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • History
  • Know

• I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Kids
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Why
  • Song

• There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Different
  • Same

• But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Life
  • Control
  • Succeed

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Great
  • Think
  • Value

• Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Thinking
  • Self
  • Meditation

• I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • House
  • Always
  • See

• Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Hair
  • Serious

• Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Library
  • Vanity

• I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Attention
  • Jazz
  • Paid

• Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • Age
  • Fall
  • Moments

• I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Together
  • Jazz
  • Wayne

• Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Amazing
  • Body
  • Used

• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

  

  Edward Benson
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Honest

• 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.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Jazz
  • Pianist
  • Coctail