The Doors Quotes
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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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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Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
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Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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The Doors really were a band of potheads.
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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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In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.
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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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Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
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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.
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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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My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
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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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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.
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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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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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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!
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...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
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When I wake up in the morning, I meditate immediately, before I even get out of bed.
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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.