The Doors Music—Strange Days Indeed...
Jim Morrison on the Doors music:
"...I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos - especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom - external revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside - reach the mental through the physical. I am a Sagittarian - if astrology has anything to do with it - the Centaur - the Archer - the Hunt - But the main thing is that we are The Doors...
"...The world we suggest is of a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun, you know? Toward the end..." —Jim Morrison, from the Elektra Records biography, 1967
"...Commitment, not versatility, is the key to Art. And in the intensity with which The Doors have made a commitment lies the true measure of their talent, maybe even their genius..." Harvey Perr
Horse Latitudes*
When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop
And heads bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
And sealed over
*from Strange Days -- Get it and other Doors downloads at
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