The Doors Quotes
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Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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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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In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.
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I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it...
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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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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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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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I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.
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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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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
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Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.
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I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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The Doors really were a band of potheads.
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Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...
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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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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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It doesn't dampen my enthusiasm. It's just an annoyance. It seems like the better you're doing, the more that happens. If nothing's going on, nobody cares.
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When Ray calls, I always ask him, 'What is it you want to buy?'