The Doors Quotes
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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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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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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal...
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A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving...
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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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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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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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves...
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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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 like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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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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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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Each day is a drive through history.
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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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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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Music is your only friend until the end...
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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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There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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Danny was the No. 1 Doors fan of the world. I told him no one loved Jim as much as he did.