133 Quotes by John Densmore

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.