The Doors Quotes
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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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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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A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving...
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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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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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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 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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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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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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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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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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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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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 believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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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 like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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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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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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Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
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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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The Doors were never that good as musicians.
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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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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...