David Icke Quotes

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

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.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

I liked the Doors and that kind of music.

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

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.

I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.

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.

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.

I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

I guess Zeppelin is some happy stuff compared to us. It's pretty hippy, too.

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it's the music I listen to a lot of the time.

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.