The Doors Quotes
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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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There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.
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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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Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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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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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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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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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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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 kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.
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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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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? 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. It's all in how you carry it.
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
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We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.
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Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss...
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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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Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.