Ray Manzarek

“We were talking about the sacred and the profane, and the high and the low, and the good and the evil.”

“The key to the whole Doors experience was the lyrics.”

“You could say I was the architect of The Doors' sound.”

“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the Doors.”

“The magic is in the space between the notes.”

“I'm a musician. I'm not a celebrity. I'm a keyboard player. I'm a musician.”

“Our music is meant to inspire people to think for themselves, to question authority, to break the rules.”

“It was jazz, it was blues, it was rock 'n' roll, it was classical music. It was all of those things rolled into one.”

“The organ is a mystical instrument. It's got a lot of historical associations.”

“We were creating a new form of American theater.”

“The Doors were a blues band, but we were a West Coast, white-boy, L.A. blues band.”

“Jim was a poet. He was a shaman. He was a rock star. And he was my brother.”