The Doors Quotes
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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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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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There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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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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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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We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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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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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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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
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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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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss...
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They got the guns But we got the numbers.
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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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We want the world and we want it...
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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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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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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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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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Where's your will to be weird?
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Always a playground instructor, never a Killer
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.