Ray Manzarek Quotes

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

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• I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Die
  • Rap

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
  • Single

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Believe
  • You
  • Same

• I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Time
  • Why
  • Interesting

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Know
  • No Regrets

• I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Think
  • Man
  • Editing

• I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Need

• Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Society
  • Creative
  • Living

• You're moving a franchise. You're leaving one city and going to another, which is difficult from a fan standpoint, from a fan-base standpoint, but you have to take care of the detail things. As you go through that step-by-step process, from my standpoint, my job is to keep in mind the player needs.

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Mind
  • Job
  • City

• I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Player
  • Challenge
  • Hockey

• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Sound
  • Pieces
  • Piano

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

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Player
  • Piano