Ray Manzarek: 'Morrison said, "There it is. Stop there. We're going inside and we're going to shoot the Hard Rock Cafe and we're going to have a couple of beers."'
Jackson Browne: 'It didn't matter if you had a great place to live or not because often there was a tree outside and a window to look at the sky. And that was enough.'
Randy Meisner: 'I played a little too busy for Linda Ronstadt - she'd probably laugh about it. I played a busy bass and she didn't like it very much. She'd look over like "Grrrr".'
Graham Nash: 'We had the times; we had the friendship; we had the songs; we had the energy.'
Glenn Frey: 'There was a rock opera idea floating around for the Desperado album. We sort of saw ourselves as living outside the law, just like the guys we were writing about.'
Stephen Stills: 'I called Neil and spoke to his Mum and she said, 'Oh Neil's broken up his band and apparently he wants to be the Bob Dylan of Canada. If you hear from him, tell him to call home.'
Joni Mitchell: 'I first came to LA with David Crosby. He had a cassette of Magical Mystery Tour and we drove down sunset and up into the hills listening to it. For me, Laurel Canyon was like the elixir of life.'
Gerry Beckley: 'When the dust settles and you clear everything else aside, what you are really going to be left with is the legacy of Lennon and McCartney.'
