The Doors Quotes
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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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When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
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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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Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!
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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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Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural – a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
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The Doors really were a band of potheads.
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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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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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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
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Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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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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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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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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Music inflames temperament.
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?
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...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.