The Doors Quotes
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My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
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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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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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You live you die and death not ends it.
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It doesn't matter what we call it, it's still Robbie and I together playing 'Light My Fire' and 'Love Me Two Times.' John should come and play and let us celebrate and keep this music alive. Look, what do I say to the cynics? I would like to play with Jim Morrison again. But you know what? I can't call him. I'm sorry. He's dead. He's busy. He's in eternity.
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There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.
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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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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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Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal...
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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...
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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.
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In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.
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The Doors really were a band of potheads.
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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
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I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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When Ray calls, I always ask him, 'What is it you want to buy?'
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Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!