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"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."
"Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves."
"All our songs are about love, travel and death."
"You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side..."
"The spectator is a dying animal."
"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."
"My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile."
"She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus."
"I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines."
"...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms."
"Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements."
"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."
"Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine."
"A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments."
"Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v."
"The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected."
"the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools"
"Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion."
"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."
"We want the world and we want it..."