The Doors Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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...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...
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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?
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps 'Oh look at that!' Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.
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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.
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People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.
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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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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
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It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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...the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre...
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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...
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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.
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When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.
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Take an Indian home to lunch.
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I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
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I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind
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The time to hesitate is through.
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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.
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Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
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I'll tell you this - No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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Rock n roll is like a circus today.