Robby Krieger Quotes
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We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.
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Jim died in 1971, and the problem of trying to replace him was insurmountable at that time. But after 30 years or so goes by, it doesn't seem so insurmountable.
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I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.
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When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.
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Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...
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It doesn't dampen my enthusiasm. It's just an annoyance. It seems like the better you're doing, the more that happens. If nothing's going on, nobody cares.
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When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
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The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.
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We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.
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Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
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All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.
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In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
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Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.
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I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.