The Doors Quotes
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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 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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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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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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When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
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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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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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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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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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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 Doors were never that good as musicians.
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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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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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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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I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
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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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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
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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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We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.
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Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.
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Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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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.