The Doors Quotes
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Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
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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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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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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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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.
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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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Take an Indian home to lunch.
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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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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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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It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.
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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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Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
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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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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.
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Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves...
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.
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Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...