The Doors Quotes
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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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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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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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There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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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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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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Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
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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 want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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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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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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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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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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Music inflames temperament.
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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal...
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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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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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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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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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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.