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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...
John Densmore The Doors -
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
John Densmore The Doors
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There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
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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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Take an Indian home to lunch.
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We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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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.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
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.
John Densmore The Doors -
When Ray calls, I always ask him, 'What is it you want to buy?'
John Densmore The Doors -
The Doors really were a band of potheads.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
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
Jim Morrison The Doors -
There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
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.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Yoga powers. To make oneself invisible or small. To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things. To change the course of nature. To place oneself anywhere in space or time. To summon the dead. To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds, in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
John Densmore The Doors -
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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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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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.
Ray Manzarek The Doors -
We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves...
Jim Morrison The Doors