Ray Manzarek

Musician

1939-02-12

Quotes by Ray Manzarek

• I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

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• The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

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• Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

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• The Doors were never that good as musicians.

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• The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

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