The Doors Quotes
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Music inflames temperament.
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In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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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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When I wake up in the morning, I meditate immediately, before I even get out of bed.
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
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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 like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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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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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 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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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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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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The Doors were never that good as musicians.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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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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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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Each day is a drive through history.
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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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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 is your only friend until the end...