You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
JIM MORRISONPeople cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
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Everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music.
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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.
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Music inflames temperament.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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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 am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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Getting drunk . . . you’re in complete control up to a point. It’s your choice, every time you take a sip.
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And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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