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John Densmore

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

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    Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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    The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

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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.

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    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.

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