The Doors Quotes
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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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Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.
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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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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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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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Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.
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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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The time to hesitate is through.
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Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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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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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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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
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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.
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It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.
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I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.
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You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run - Tried to hide - Break on through to the other side!
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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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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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Take an Indian home to lunch.
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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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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.