Top 31 Densmore Quotes

#1. I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.

Steven Adler

Densmore Quotes #61446
#2. Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.

Frances Densmore

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

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1860196
#4. Song for the Puberty Rite of a Girl Named Cowaka:
A poor man takes the songs in his hand
And drops them near the place where the sun sets.
See, Cowaka, run to them and take them in your hand,
And place them under the sunset.

Frances Densmore

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#5. 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

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

John Densmore

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#7. In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1444061
#8. The profound and primal cause of obesity will one day be recognized to be the use of cereal and starch foods.

Emmet Densmore

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#9. 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

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

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1391587
#11. The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1374110
#12. 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

Densmore Quotes #1328606
#13. Dream Song:

The heavens
Go with me.

Frances Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1315067
#14. 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

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

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1301294
#16. Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1274843
#17. Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.

John Densmore

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#18. Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1103215
#19. Dream Song:
In the heavens
A noise,
Like the rustling of the trees.

Frances Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1058308
#20. I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1034247
#21. 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

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#22. 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

Densmore Quotes #1012688
#23. The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

Frances Densmore

Densmore Quotes #1005197
#24. Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

Frances Densmore

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#25. 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

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

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #683719
#27. I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

John Densmore

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#28. Song on Applying War Paint:
At the center of the earth
I stand,
Behold me!
At the wind center
I stand,
Behold me!
A root of medicine
Therefore I stand,
At the wind center
I stand.

Frances Densmore

Densmore Quotes #518840
#29. Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

Emmet Densmore

Densmore Quotes #263476
#30. We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.

John Densmore

Densmore Quotes #77066
#31. Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony:
A voice,
I will send.
Hear me!
The land
All over,
A voice
I am sending!
Hear me!
I will live!

Frances Densmore

Densmore Quotes #59798

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