"The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times."

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Source : Jac Holzman, Gavan Daws (1998). “Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture”, First Media Books

Jac Holzman

#Doors Quotes #Culture Quotes #Upheaval Quotes

“It was shocking to see a leg! You've never seen a leg in these stories. We made it a little saloon girl. We played up on many elements because everything is just very covered and the tights are very thick and heavy. And then to have it all fell apart, absolutely, we wanted to see the leg!”
“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”
“Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!”

Source : FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Dec 07, 2014
“The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.”
“I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest passion is for some form of applied ethics, that leaves me with oodles of possibilities, many of which I have never had the time or opportunity to explore in great depth.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.”
“For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.”
“My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.”

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