The Doors Quotes
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Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws...
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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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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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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We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.
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When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.
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Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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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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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
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The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.
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The Doors were never that good as musicians.
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When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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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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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
