A Quote by John Densmore

Every new generation seems to have to go through its Doors rite of passage.

John Densmore

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John Densmore
American - Musician
Born: December 1, 1944

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Pete Townshend

I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

Drew Barrymore

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Dan Millman

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

Hank Nuwer

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

Ben Schnetzer

It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part.

Lucy Bronze

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Robin Marantz Henig

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Kenny Loggins

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

Rebecca Solnit

I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.

DJ Qualls

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

Octavia Butler

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.