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Ray Manzarek

"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

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Donna Grant

"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."

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Donna Grant

"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

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Donna Grant

"Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good."

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Donna Grant

"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

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Donna Grant

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

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Donna Grant

"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."

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Donna Grant

"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."

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Donna Grant

"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."

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Donna Grant

"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."

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Ray Manzarek
"Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe."

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Ray Manzarek
"Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him."

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Ray Manzarek
"Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost."

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Ray Manzarek
"Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today."

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Ray Manzarek
"If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz."

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Ray Manzarek
"The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth."

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Ray Manzarek
"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

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Ray Manzarek
"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. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player."

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Ray Manzarek
"Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century."

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Ray Manzarek
"Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing."

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