The Doors Quotes
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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It doesn't matter what we call it, it's still Robbie and I together playing 'Light My Fire' and 'Love Me Two Times.' John should come and play and let us celebrate and keep this music alive. Look, what do I say to the cynics? I would like to play with Jim Morrison again. But you know what? I can't call him. I'm sorry. He's dead. He's busy. He's in eternity.
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
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Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss...
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There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.
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People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.
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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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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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Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
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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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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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Music is your only friend until the end...
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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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Each day is a drive through history.
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Music inflames temperament.
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Anything that Pearl Jam does, I'm down with, because they have so much integrity. Pearl Jam is always trying to find new things and explore new technology, and I like that.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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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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Always a playground instructor, never a Killer
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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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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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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.