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Rock n roll is like a circus today.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
Ray Manzarek The Doors
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This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
The spectator is a dying animal.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.
John Densmore The Doors -
Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
Jim Morrison The Doors -
When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.
John Densmore The Doors -
Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
Jim Morrison The Doors -
You want a showman, go see rock n roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.
Ray Manzarek The Doors
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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.
John Densmore The Doors -
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.
John Densmore The Doors -
When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...
Jim Morrison The Doors -
You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run - Tried to hide - Break on through to the other side!
Jim Morrison The Doors -
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...
John Densmore The Doors
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Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
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.
Robby Krieger The Doors -
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.
Robby Krieger The Doors -
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.
John Densmore The Doors