The Doors Quotes
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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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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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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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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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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.
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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.
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The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
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We want the world and we want it...
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...
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I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.
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I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.
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I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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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 appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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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 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 a lot of pressure, from everyone, ... Pressure from the guys, the manager, the (Morrison) estate.
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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?