The Doors Quotes
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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Rock n roll is like a circus today.
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I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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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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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.
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At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...
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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.
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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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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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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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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.
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Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
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There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...
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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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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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If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.