The Doors Quotes
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The Doors were never that good as musicians.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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They got the guns But we got the numbers.
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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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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
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Where's your will to be weird?
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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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We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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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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There's a lot of pressure, from everyone, ... Pressure from the guys, the manager, the (Morrison) estate.
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Always a playground instructor, never a Killer
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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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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss...
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.