The Doors Quotes
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We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves...
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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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...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
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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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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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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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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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When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
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Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!
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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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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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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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Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
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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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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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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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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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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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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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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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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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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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We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.