John Densmore Quotes

• 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.

  John Densmore

  Spiritual, Rays, Ensemble

  FaceBook post by John Densmore from Mar 26, 2016

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

  John Densmore

  Brother, Moving, Player

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• I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

  John Densmore

  Believe, Mean, Want

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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

  John Densmore

  Light, Littles

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

  John Densmore

  Mother, Firsts, Beats

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  John Densmore

  Mom, Moving, Play

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

  John Densmore

  Crazy, Twenties

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

  John Densmore

  Blessed, Passion, Writing

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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

  John Densmore

  Play, Two, Trying

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• I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

  John Densmore

  Environmental, Groups, Supporter

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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

  John Densmore

  Appreciate, Catholic, Guilt

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• 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.

  John Densmore

  Garden, Thinking, Two

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• Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

  John Densmore

  Sexy, Ears, Proud

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• Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

  John Densmore

  Passion, Sensual, Stuff

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When I wake up in the morning, I meditate immediately, before I even get out of bed.

  John Densmore

  Morning, Bed, Wake Up

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.

  John Densmore

  Sex, Band, Polygamy

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• We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.

  John Densmore

  Littles, Heartbeat

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.

  John Densmore

  People, Bathroom, Forget

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.

  John Densmore

  Play, Two, Trying

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  John Densmore

  Talking, Levels, Firsts

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