John Densmore Quotes

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• The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Mother
  • Heard
  • Drum

• The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in.

  

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  • Dance
  • Plays
  • Orchestra

• Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of...

  

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  • Sexy
  • Named
  • Pixie-voiced

• When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.

  

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  • Experience
  • Playing
  • Ensemble

• People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.

  

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  • Divorced
  • Celebrities
  • Public People

• Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

  

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  • Players
  • Brothers
  • Basement

• If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Musicians
  • Orchestra
  • Ensemble

• I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Play
  • Melodies

• If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.

  

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  • Live
  • Think
  • Playing

• I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

  

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  • Environmental
  • Groups
  • Long Time

• Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Light
  • Unknown
  • Provide

• In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Crazy
  • Twenties

• Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

  

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  • Spirit
  • Level
  • Courageous

• I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

  

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  • Sin
  • Catholic
  • Guilt

• When Ray calls, I always ask him, 'What is it you want to buy?'

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Ask
  • Calls
  • Ray

• Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Passion
  • Stuff
  • Provocative

• Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Band
  • Sex
  • Polygamy

• When I wake up in the morning, I meditate immediately, before I even get out of bed.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Morning
  • Wake Up
  • Meditate

• Anything that Pearl Jam does, I'm down with, because they have so much integrity. Pearl Jam is always trying to find new things and explore new technology, and I like that.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • New Things
  • Pearl Jam
  • New technology

• We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Own
  • Heartbeat
  • Polyrhythms

• Danny was the No. 1 Doors fan of the world. I told him no one loved Jim as much as he did.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • World
  • Fan
  • Doors

• There's a lot of pressure, from everyone, ... Pressure from the guys, the manager, the (Morrison) estate.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Pressure
  • Guys
  • Manager

• I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Mystery