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We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets
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To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.
Ray Manzarek The Doors
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They're making a joke of our universe
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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Do you dare deny my potency my kindness or forgiveness?
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Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
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Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests
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John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
Jim Morrison The Doors -
The spectator is a dying animal.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest - (did you have a good world when you died?) - enough to base a movie on?
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.
John Densmore The Doors -
...the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools...
Jim Morrison The Doors