Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek
Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr.better known as Ray Manzarek, was an American musician, singer, producer, film director, and author, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973. Manzarek was notable for performing on a keyboard bass during many live shows and some recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a bass guitar player. He was a co-founding member of Nite City from 1977 to 1978, and of Manzarek–Krieger from 2001 until his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth12 February 1939
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.