The Doors Quotes
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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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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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...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
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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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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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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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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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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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There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...
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All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.
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There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.
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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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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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People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.
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Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss...