48 Quotes by Ray Manzarek

You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.

The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.

Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.

Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It’s like the Bauhaus. It’s clean and pure. Morrison’s lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.

The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man’s name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.

You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you’ve gotta believe. You’ve gotta believe in the goodness.