Welcome to a realm where poetry meets rock ‘n’ roll, where mysticism intertwines with the raw energy of music the world of The Doors. As one of the most iconic bands of the 1960s, The Doors transcended mere music to become a cultural phenomenon. Led by the enigmatic Jim Morrison, The Doors carved a unique niche in the annals of rock history with their introspective lyrics, haunting melodies, and electrifying performances. From the smoky stages of underground clubs to the grandeur of sold-out arenas, The Doors captivated audiences with their spellbinding blend of psychedelic rock, blues, and poetry.
At the heart of The Doors’ allure lies their profound and often enigmatic lyrics. Jim Morrison, with his deep, hypnotic voice, served as the conduit for lyrics that delved into the depths of human consciousness, exploring themes of love, freedom, existentialism, and the darker aspects of the human psyche. His poetic sensibilities, coupled with the musical virtuosity of Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore, created a sonic tapestry that continues to resonate with listeners across generations. The Doors’ music not only entertained but also provoked thought, inviting listeners to ponder life’s mysteries and confront their innermost desires and fears.
Below, you’ll find a collection of quotes that encapsulate the essence of The Doors’ philosophy, worldview, and artistic vision. Whether you seek inspiration, introspection, or simply a glimpse into the mind of one of rock’s most enigmatic figures, these quotes offer a window into the soul of The Doors.
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Orison Swett Marden
I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed. James Corden
I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it’s time to push them wide open. Q-Tip
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of ‘who you are.’ It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds. David Crystal
As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you’ve got to shut the doors down. Tommy Lasorda
People only look at you and say, ‘You are black and you are from the banlieue,’ and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through. Omar Sy
I always say ‘Knocked Up’ opened the doors, and ‘Hangover’ just burst it wide open. To this day, it’s still surreal. And my wife’s a doctor. All our friends are doctors – our close friends. And it’s just that I have an odd job now. I think I’m like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job. Ken Jeong
I sang the songs in ‘The Doors’. Val Kilmer
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. Paul Newman
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. Orison Swett Marden
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. Akhenaton
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith. Laura Chinchilla
I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service. Anne Lamott
The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That’s why we were a band. Ray Manzarek
Most people pass through the doors of a hospital as a last resort. By the time you reach a bed, you’ve probably made a lot of small-scale decisions that, if they didn’t cause your affliction, may have exacerbated your symptoms. Dawn Foster
I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven. Flula Borg
‘American Idol’ opened up all the doors to where I am now. Ace Young
Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it’s because youths don’t have jobs. Or you might say that’s because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks. Evgeny Morozov
The earth’s biosphere could be thought of as a sort of palace. The continents are rooms in the palace; islands are smaller rooms. Each room has its own decor and unique inhabitants; many of the rooms have been sealed off for millions of years. The doors in the palace have been flung open, and the walls are coming down. Richard Preston
Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers. Butch Trucks
L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it’s unglamorous in all the right ways. Rachel Kushner
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Maxwell Maltz
The space elevator’s not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space. Seth Shostak
I’m just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me – thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I’m meant to continue working as a musician, it’ll happen. If I’m not, then pull out the life support. Jane Siberry
The doors fly open when you’re a professional athlete. Dennis Rodman
I was working as a software engineer in Infosys. I quit because I lost interest in it. I had a group of friends who wanted to make it big in films, and that’s when the audition for ‘Malarvady Arts Club’ happened. I got selected, and it opened the doors to my dream world. Nivin Pauly
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. Laura Bush
I’ll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce. Alan Autry
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life. Hillary Clinton
I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open. Sheryl Swoopes
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance. Kailash Satyarthi
The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys. Steve Erickson
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were – the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props – and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals – scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful. Harold Prince
I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves. LeRoy Neiman
I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut. Bahman Ghobadi
The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened. Jennifer Coolidge
I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn’t know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn’t stop crying. Skylar Grey
I liked back in the sixties where you’d turn on the radio and go ‘Oh that’s Hendrix, that’s Creedence Clearwater, that’s The Doors, there’s The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there’s Big Brother.’ You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there’s no way you could do that. Creed Bratton
When you’re a Republican Latino, you’re traveling uphill on a lonely road. Still, it’s the road I prefer. It has led me to opportunity far beyond my dreams. I’ve worked on eight Republican presidential races, as well as for some of the world’s largest corporations, all because the doors of opportunity, not the doors of welfare, were open to me. Lionel Sosa
Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community. Maynard Jackson
Obama, he wouldn’t have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people. Rodney King
It’s nice to have more than one little one because then you’ll have – while one is pushing you in a wheelchair, the other one can open the doors for you. Clyde Edgerton
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. Donald Justice
So many people appreciate what you’ve done, the doors you’ve opened, but some people realise they’re not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started. Nelly
To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There’s a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it’s better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant. Danny Rimer
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother’s house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second. Ingmar Bergman
Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven’t done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration. Ken Hill
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. Billy Sunday
The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail. David Hewson
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other’s art, so we can effect a synthesis. Robby Krieger
I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles. Chazz Palminteri
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent. Pope Francis
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world. Raul Ruiz
The women’s movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we’d break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we’d walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors. Ellen Goodman
I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs. Patti Smith
Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity – seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don’t let them in? Mandy Patinkin
When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them. Steve Erickson
The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth. Ray Manzarek
When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything. Tori Amos
Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn’t just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, ‘This is going to be huge for me!’ And it really wasn’t at all. Jessica Biel
To me, it’s all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music. Eric Brown
My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open. Morgan Wallen
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts. Mikhail Baryshnikov
I think a lot of my appreciation for the Doors’ music, which I love, originates with my discovery of them through seeing ‘Apocalypse Now.’ It’s my second favorite film of all time. Scott Derrickson
I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for ‘SNL’ when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I’m going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you’re getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work. Jake Johnson
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point. Chris Stapleton
If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don’t believe he belongs. I don’t believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for. Barry Larkin
I don’t think it works to just be mad at them – Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you. Maxine Waters
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. Jim Morrison
It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in. Simon Armitage
There’s a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world. Hanoi Hannah
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you’re in another world. Robert Caro
When I first went to ‘National Geographic,’ I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there. Sam Abell
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’ Geena Davis
I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. J. G. Ballard
Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn’t even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn’t deserve. Janice Dickinson
There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‘urban.’ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead. Kanye West
I’ve never been a planner. I didn’t know I was going to run for the State House. I didn’t know I was going to run for governor. I don’t know what’s next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time. Nikki Haley
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean. Gary Ross
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don’t exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. Donald E. Westlake
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. Jesse Jackson
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
I don’t really think about male and female; if something’s right for me, it’s right for me, and it doesn’t matter what it is – maybe that’s what it took for me, a woman, to break down the doors. Suzi Quatro
I’ve always been drawn to movies where I get a chance to look into a world that I kind of know about, but that I never really get to see what’s happening behind the doors. Jonas Akerlund
I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the ’60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in. John Sulston
When I watched Ellen come out in ’97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through. Portia de Rossi
If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama. William J. Clinton
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. Lyndon B. Johnson
I didn’t love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn’t care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic. Linda Ronstadt
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal. Olympia Brown
I’ve always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that’s when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room. Tony Dorsett
If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone. Harvey Milk
Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change. Hakan Nesser
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. Phillips Brooks
I am really into ’70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not. Danny Masterson
And I think that figuring out how to open the doors in yourself that make you worthy of love and capable of giving love is that ongoing conversation that I was most interested in exploring. Rege-Jean Page